Sentence examples for strip mine from inspiring English sources
noun
A mine where the material above the ore is removed (stripped) to expose it for removal and use.
The process involved first clear-cutting the forest and then creating a strip mine.
In later works, a line of destroyers plows through waves, and steam shovels strip mine for coal.
We walked up a road toward a reclaimed former strip mine, accompanied by Ms. Kirby's dog, Maysie.
All died in the crash of the Boeing 757 in an old strip mine outside Shanksville, Pa.
[Reuters] Conflict has arisen over a proposed strip mine in Kentucky that could soon surround a venerated Girl Scout camp, altering its bucolic vista for years.
Coal strip mining deplored.
With strip mining, mountaintops became mesas.
Cook backed clean-air standards and limits on strip mining.
Mountaintop mining is basically high-altitude strip mining.
Strip mines are strip mines, and I had seen similar scenery in North Dakota and southern Ohio and West Virginia, though never quite so close at hand.
