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quarrying

[ US /ˈkwɔɹiɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /kwˈɒɹɪɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the extraction of building stone or slate from an open surface quarry

How To Use quarrying In A Sentence

  • The singing, so difficult to bear for many listeners, never settles into a particular pitch, remaining agonisedly in motion; Jandek presents us with a voice in extremity, and an endless quarrying of pain and related states, in which infinite gradations of suffering are allowed to differentiate themselves. Archive 2007-10-01
  • When the season for quarrying began, the pits sprang to life and the pace continued rapidly until the first deep frost at which time quarrying ceased.
  • In 1992, the height of the obsidian ‘rush’, seven companies were quarrying the stone in the area.
  • Polar literature is a rich vein for quarrying. Times, Sunday Times
  • The scar created by quarrying the hillside is visible from a wide area, but working of the scar face is now completed and progress is being made below the level of surrounding land.
  • The local authority has used an aircraft to provide thermal images of the area in order to pinpoint all the illegal landfills on the site which is used for legitimate quarrying by CRH.
  • The 12 men were arrested on Wednesday in a sting operation as police and army officials sought to crack down on illegal quarrying.
  • Assistance with funding was also provided by English Nature and a local quarrying company.
  • However, quarrying is a long-standing industry, one which was there centuries before tourism.
  • You can visit the restored quarryman's cottage and view relics of the early quarrying.
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