Sentence examples for mine shut from inspiring English sources
With the local underground mine shut down, there were nowhere near as many jobs, or kids.
About 600 mine, pipeline and power plant jobs were affected when the Mohave Generating Station in Nevada and Peabody's Black Mesa mine shut down.
He married, had children, divorced, made do when the local mine shut down, eventually retired and, in 2001, set up his mobile home beside his parents' house.
Three years later, after a sharp decline in the price of molybdenum, the Climax mine shut down, stripping Leadville of its heart.
Yes, Lindytown had become home mostly to retired union miners and their families; when the Robin Hood No. 8 mine shut down, for example, his three sons had to leave the state to work.
In a sign of the battles yet to come, Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, said he had invited as his guest a Kentucky coalminer who lost his job when his mine shut down, a gesture intended as a rebuke to Obama.
We always talk about the mine shutting down, which was 1978, 1980 … around there.
The Serifos mines shut down in 1964.
When a country's mines shut down, tuberculosis often fell.
The last of its mines shut in 1990.
But the population dwindled as the mines shut down.
