Sentence examples for clinker from inspiring English sources
noun
A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
Already the country imports 10m-15m tofnes of clinker every year more than any other in Asia.Following the 10km-stretch of belt on the Bangladeshi side proves tricky.
The main ingredient in concrete, cement is made by heating limestone and clay until they fuse into a material called clinker, which is then ground up and mixed with various additives.
Of the volume of the planet in which traces of life can be found, something over 90% is deep under water.By virtue of its inaccessibility to man, the deep is as pristine an environment as can be (though scientists trawling 4km down complain of the coke cans and clinker they find everywhere).
For stone it relies almost entirely on imports, with an annual demand running to 7m tonnes; it is one of the world's biggest importers of both limestone and clinker.
In the early afternoon of January 1st, monitors at the Maritime Security Centre-Horn of Africa, based in Northwood near London, picked up distress signals from the MV Blida.Somali pirates had hijacked the Greek-operated, Algerian-flagged 20,586-tonne bulk carrier, its crew of 27 (mainly Algerian and Ukrainian) and its cargo of clinker.
Mixtures in other proportions are found in French-speaking countries under such names as ciment portland de fer, ciment métallurgique mixte, ciment de haut fourneau, and ciment de liatier au clinker.
Ranging from 45 to 75 feet (14 to 23 metres) in length, clinker-built (with overlapped planks), and carrying a single square sail, the longship was exceptionally sturdy in heavy seas.
Beyond this section, where a harness-racing track had once tied up sixty acres, contractors in the years before the war positioned handsome limestone and clinker-brick single houses on new streets curving up the side of Shale Hill.
A live 1963 recording on the CRI label attests to his clinker-prone playing.
The poems that make up "Legion" are snapshots of an unnamed war, the kind of thing you don't want to see in your newspaper; "ash-and-clinker negatives" Harsent calls them in "Ghost Archaeology".
Just outside the National, a grey clinker-built boat has been beached: constructed from recycled scenery and riverside salvage, it's about 17 metres long and has a 10 metre-high mast.
