Sentence examples for on a quarry from inspiring English sources

Members of Flickr's Scottish discussion forums jumped at the chance to solve a mystery and worked together, identifying clues in the backgrounds of the photos, like a danger sign on a quarry fence in one and a distant skyline in another.

Weeks after the bus massacre, gunmen swept down on a quarry near Mandera, shooting dead 36 miners as they slept.

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.

The Heights complex, perched on a quarry site on Montclair State's Spanish colonial-style campus, is light and airy with large student lounges, quiet study rooms and a basement clubhouse.

The money can be used for relocating 12 homes; work on a quarry and a Dura-Base road that leads to the quarry; finishing the emergency evacuation center; building a temporary landing strip for deliveries of construction supplies and for emergencies; and water, sewer and a landfill.

There is barely a plot, little character development, the action almost all takes place in one location – Guy's crumbling home perched on the edge of a quarry.

Our house is on the edge of a quarry and is about to be knocked down.

The Peace Kannon (a manifestation of the goddess of compassion) is an 88-foot (27-metre) statue that was carved on the wall of a quarry between 1948 and 1956.

The newest homes — and the only new construction in recent years in South Orange — are on the site of a quarry in a mid-2000s Pulte Homes development called the Manors at South Mountain, which has 62 luxury town houses and 6 detached homes.

It is on private property, part of a quarry up the road.

And then, of course, the bones were taken across the city in these processions, with chanting priests, to a quarry on the other side of the river.