Sentence examples for as a quarry from inspiring English sources

Blenheim was described as "a quarry".

In December, 1878, Rimbaud found work in Cyprus as a quarry supervisor.

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

The Spaniards dismantled much of Sacsayhuaman, and for centuries it was used as a quarry.

** In December, 1878, Rimbaud found work in Cyprus as a quarry supervisor.

The Coliseum in Rome was used as a quarry to build St. Peter's Basilica and other Roman landmarks.

The songwriter Stephin Merritt, the frontman of the band the Magnetic Fields, has trained his gaze on a quarry as seemingly picayune as toilet paper.

It comes from a girl who is not a gorgon but has the ability to make a person feel as invisible and dispensable as a rock in a quarry.

Representatives of Church and State cast a virgin into a quarry as a form of sacrifice.

In the work's black-and-white film, the camera keeps a steady eye on boulders in a quarry, as if monitoring the stately march of geologic time.

The rock was cut out of the earth last year and has rested in a quarry as Mr. Govan and other museum officials struggled to figure out a route that could accommodate the truck built to carry the boulder.