How to Use mine in a Sentence

mine

1 of 2 noun
  • It’s been one of mine for years.
    — Andrea Zendejas, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2026
  • But this is your poll, not mine.
    — Greg Cote april 17, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Is this mine to have and to hold?
    — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • But this is your poll, not mine.
    — Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • And so many of mine were built in Malaysia.
    — Julie Lin, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 June 2026
  • His first job was in the local iron mines.
    — Max Norman, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
  • Like canaries in the coal mine ocean form.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Amid the unrest, the mine shut down.
    — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 20 Apr. 2026
  • With mine, there is nothing to look at.
    — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Anything with a plot that isn’t mine.
    — Jamilee Hoglind, Outside, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Worry about your house – not mine.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 17 June 2026
  • My son's panic hit first, then mine.
    — Danielle Marie Holland, Parents, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Rosedale was once known for its quarries and mines.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Worry ‘bout your house — not mine.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 17 June 2026
  • Worry ‘bout your house — not mine.
    — Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 18 June 2026
  • But no—the second horn sounds even more like mine.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • So restoring the house was kind of a project of mine.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 28 June 2026
  • Worry bout your house- not mine.
    — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 18 June 2026
  • Worry bout your house- not mine.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2026
  • Our outrage, yours and mine, will not be to scale.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 16 May 2026
  • That’s their problem, not mine.
    — Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 29 May 2026
  • At this point, that seat strangely feels like mine.
    — Shivani Vora, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
  • Cave-ins shut down mines as nature fought back against man.
    — Megan Dubois, Southern Living, 4 May 2026
  • Maybe take out those fast boats or mines that are along the water.
    — ABC News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Is this live from the mines of Moria?
    — Alexandra Petri, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026
  • More than all the mines in Africa combined?
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The strait needs to be checked for mines which will take time, Wirth said.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 6 May 2026
  • So here’s your sign (and mine) to cue up your breezy bottoms for spring.
    — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2026
  • There are three main mines on the site now, named after the ores found there.
    — John Marks, Charlotte Observer, 1 May 2026

mine

2 of 2 verb
  • Local people were hired to mine the gold.
  • The enemy had mined the harbor.
  • And for decades there have been pushes to mine this reserve.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The film at least mines some charm from a fender-bender as a meet-cute.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2026
  • As many teams brushed away games and moved on to the next, Shildt mined gold from the past.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Will Webb be free to mine for one in different ground?
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Hoping to mine gold from the 11th overall draft pick.
    — Greg Cote january 8, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Their guano is mined from caves for fertilizer.
    — The Conversation, Fortune, 14 May 2026
  • Some of the minerals that can be mined in space are also very valuable.
    — Julian Dossett, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The site hasn't been commercially mined since.
    — Tommy Trenchard, NPR, 23 Aug. 2025
  • The footage could be mined by both Dokumalia and the scientists.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The rising price of gold made mining an attractive source of forex.
    — Claire Wilmot & Gisa Tunbridge, The Dial, 12 June 2026
  • Map the avatar, write the outreach, build the magnet, mine your best post, and script the call that closes.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Or, a startup that mined a carmaker’s blueprints and claimed fair use.
    — Gerard Scimeca, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
  • So how heavily mined is the Strait of Hormuz?
    — CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Shoppers should be free to thump a melon without being mined for data.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 20 Aug. 2025
  • How can mining of the Ogallala in Colorado be slowed?
    — Allen Best, Denver Post, 14 June 2026
  • But who was mining the lapis lazuli in Afghanistan and under what conditions?
    — Teju Cole, New York Times, 25 May 2023
  • The main central route of the Strait of Hormuz is still mined and remains closed.
    — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Fortune, 23 June 2026
  • Podcast hosts talk about it; the details get mined for social media content.
    — Adam Carlson, ABC News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Meanwhile, not far away in that enormous underground world, salt is still mined every day.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Some flows to offshore deposits just past the surf zone, which can be mined for replenishment projects.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The writing team mines their own experiences, both as parents and from their own youth, for plot lines.
    — Amy Amatangelo, Parents, 1 June 2026
  • Whether Tehran can mine the strait—and to what extent—also remains an open question.
    — Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Wedbush’s Reese said part of the problem can be trying to mine too much from any one franchise.
    — Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2026
  • That cuts down e-waste and potentially even the need to mine for as much raw material.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 11 Oct. 2023
  • In addition, Toor said, Craig 1 was built near a coal seam that has had all of its coal mined.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 31 Dec. 2025
  • This was an instinctual work, mined from decades of memory.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2026
  • Only a comedic mind like John Mulaney’s could mine gold from one of the lowest points of his life.
    — William Earl, Variety, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The lawfulness of an order is a question of law to be deter¬ mined by the military judge.
    — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2025

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