Sentence examples for quarried away from inspiring English sources

The rest is diabase, an igneous rock that has to be quarried away using an explosive gel.

A painting on an RSPB fireplace is the only visual record, however, for the cliff was subsequently quarried away.

Many ships were wrecked on the Doom Bar, despite the installation of mooring rings and capstans on the cliffs and quarrying away part of Stepper Point to improve the wind.

It was the first temple in mainland Greece to be built entirely of marble — twenty-two thofsand tons of it, quarried about ten miles away and hauled up the Acropolis by sledges, carts, and pulleys.

Moreover, unlike the Egyptian pyramids which use limestone quarried barely half a km away all the time, the entire city of Angkor was built with sandstone quarried 40 km (or more) away.

Just over the ridge from the handsome homes and sloping lawns, the old marble quarry churns away as it has since the early 1900's, producing ornamental stones and pebbles, powdered limestone fertilizer and ingredients for floor tiles, caulks and paints, abrasive cleaners, bowling balls and golf ball covers.

The exterior of the house, constructed of blue granite and fieldstone, was quarried from a location two miles away near the Potomac River.

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

The hills, suffering from their proximity to human habitation, have been clawed away by quarrying.

Limestone is quarried nearby.

Kaolin is quarried nearby.