Sentence examples for a quarry for construction from inspiring English sources

Reliefs which once adorned the temple have been found embedded in the walls of that of Nyuserre Ini (2445 2421 BC), which suggests either that Nyuserre used Sahure's temple as a quarry for construction materials or that he constructed his temple on the same site.

The Turks used the site as a quarry for building materials (including chalcedony) for Constantinople.

Thereafter, it effectively became a quarry for other buildings.

Built around A.D. 80, a grand oval arena for gladiatorial contests and feeding Christians to lions, the Colosseum had survived time and Visigoths but succumbed to slow attrition during the later Christian Era, when various popes leased it as a stone quarry for their construction projects.

Quarrying for construction materials in the hilly and rocky areas and livestock keeping are also important economic activities that partly impact the creation of mosquito breeding sites.

"These friends tell us, 'Our people know hospitals, they know orphanages and they know kindergartens, but they will never understand a project like a quarry or construction machinery.

This moat might be a stone quarry for material used during the construction of Djoser's step pyramid.

| A boon for construction.

It became a popular quarry for a legion of bloggers, translators and amateur historians.

Ancient Egyptian temples were later used as quarries for new construction, and the Rosetta Stone probably was re-used in this manner.

In hindsight, mushrooms were a rather ambitious quarry for a first time forager.