Sentence examples for were quarried from inspiring English sources
noun
A site for mining stone, limestone or slate.
- Michelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara
The marble walls were quarried in Westchester County.
And its face: the cliffs were quarried for basalt in the late 1800's.
I studied the pillars in graduate school, how they were quarried in the mountains above Athens, the unfinished drums drawn in oxcarts, gleaming, to their new home.
On the southern shore, a nuclear power station and then an iron-ore terminal opened in Hunterston, while large holes were quarried on the Cowal coast as building yards for North Sea oilrigs.
While the sweeping vista of the lake, which stretches 52 kilometers, or 32 miles, steals the show on three sides of the house, the kitchen window on the fourth showcases the pale limestone slope where the foundation stones were quarried.
Everything was done here just as William Morris might have insisted on 30 years earlier: the stone and slate were quarried nearby, timber beams were cut with an old-fashioned two‑handed saw, and local craftspeople brushed up ancient skills to produce everything indoors, from pottery to caned seats.
"At first they were quarrying it, then around 1900 they started cutting into hillsides".
In these Paleozoic strata, the Devonian presents as a sandstone base of the Lower Famennian, where the levels were quarried The stone that was quarried is arkose of the Famennian stage.
Limestone is quarried nearby.
Kaolin is quarried nearby.
Alabaster is quarried near the capital.
