"quarry" is a word used in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a large open pit from which stone, slate, or other materials are extracted. You can use it when you need to describe a large open pit or when you need a noun to refer to the process of extracting stones or other materials. Example sentence: The workers in the quarry labored diligently to extract the slate from the pit.
The "head hunters'" quarry included true-believers that the British state security apparatus (or at least some parts of it) were happy to be rid of such as IRA Derry Brigade activist Paddy Flood, whom most republicans in the city now admit was not an informer.
If the authorities had heard this involved a "Snooper Bowl" championship game, he would have been prosecuted under the Ego Act and sent to the rock quarry at Folsom.
Our house is on the edge of a quarry and is about to be knocked down.
He had spotted several in a high quarry and told me that the bird on the hillside above was a third-year male; the markings become more defined as the birds mature.
The owners of the hotel – property developer Remo Stoffel and local quarry entrepreneur Pius Truffer – have today unveiled plans to build the tallest building in Europe right next door, an 80-storey silo stuffed with luxury bedrooms.
The long climb up and the hot days scratching away in the quarry gave me plenty of time to think about what compelled me to go to the precarious site.
"I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Mars spoiling their manicures in the rock quarry at Folsom, alongside of the poor little slum-bred guys that got knocked over on their first caper and never had a break since.
The quarry had sat idle for 155 years, and I could see why.
The Jurassic bones I uncovered at the Dystrophaeus quarry, as well as those on display in museums all over the world, are the biological vestiges of creatures unlike just about anything alive today.
The shooters claim to be conservationists, yet they still promote golden plovers as legitimate quarry for their "sport".
Only in the most special of circumstances can they actually see their quarry.
