Sentence examples for quarried from inspiring English sources

The line's 3m concrete sleepers are being cast there, and the ballast on which they will lie is quarried nearby.

It turned a ramshackle industry, in which old-growth forests were largely quarried for their use in making talon, into an industry in which the trees themselves became the marketable product.

Stone is quarried by hand from small outcrops of rock and taken away by lorry in the dry season.

He habitually quarried the end-notes and the smallest print.

THE entire temple of Athena the Virgin Goddess on the Acropolis at Athens, along with its sculptures and fitments of bronze, ivory and gold, was quarried, shaped, cast and built in a mere 14 years in the 440s and 430s before Christ.

Limestone is quarried nearby.

Coal is mined and stone is quarried.

Limestone is quarried in the northwest.

Granite and marble are quarried nearby.

Limestone is quarried from surrounding bluffs.

Alabaster is quarried near the capital.