Sentence examples for sinking a well from inspiring English sources
In 1974 farmers who were sinking a well outside Xian hit pottery fragments, which turned out to be the figures of soldiers.
Drillers have to go down deeper and deeper to discover more oil; sinking a well in Oklahoma can cost over $1m.
Dowsing is the practice of finding water (or sometimes oil or other underground substances) by traversing land holding a forked stick and sinking a well at the spot where the stick turns toward the ground.
So after his new neighbor started sinking a well to plant a water-sucking almond orchard in the middle of the worst drought he'd ever seen, James Turner hurried over.
A.F. Gilmore, who moved to Los Angeles from Illinois in 1870, was sinking a well to water the herd of cows he grazed near the present corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue when his drill struck oil — an exciting development for the humans involved, less so for the thirsty nonplussed cows.
Fossil fuel production is inherently risky business -- whether it involves dumping toxic slurry into 65 square miles of settlement ponds in the tar sands fields in Alberta or pouring hundreds of chemicals into the ground to release natural gas in Pennsylvania or sinking a well five miles below the ocean floor to get at oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
HASKELL COUNTY, Kan .— Forty-nine yeago AshleyshleYostst's grandfather sank a well deep into a half-mile square of rich Kansas farmland.
On World Water Day, he notes that dirty water kills more people than warfare, while it takes $1,300 to sink a well in an African village.
Diggers tried to sink a well a year ago in some porous marble near the twin lakes in the garden's northwest quadrant.
When Mohammed Babar and other villagers close to the town of Wazirabad sunk a well several years ago, they discovered water just 50ft beneath the surface; now the water table lies at around 100ft down.
BP has, however, announced that it intends to go ahead with plans to sink a well – which would be 200m deeper than the one in the Gulf of Mexico – around 125 miles off the coast of Libya.
