How to Use quarry in a Sentence

quarry

1 of 2 noun
  • His dad stacked stone at a quarry.
    — Lloyd Blankfein, Vanity Fair, 19 Feb. 2026
  • His cousin drowned in the quarry!
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Rosedale was once known for its quarries and mines.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Plans for a sand and gravel quarry on the site are now dead.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • So how does Loomer choose her quarry, and who’s next on her hit list?
    — Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The city was known then for the sparkling blue lakes that filled former quarries.
    — Marc Santora Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
  • This makes feral pigs a favorite quarry among hunters in that part of the world.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The most profitable quarry, these days, is the narwhal.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Rusting quarries at the mouth of Azusa Canyon.
    — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Holes have been hacked in the walls of the quarry to try to access the catacombs.
    — Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Jan. 2022
  • And the hill where the quarry once operated is green again.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The same stone, from a nearby quarry, is being used for the west facade of the new project.
    — New York Times, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Its open pit looks like a quarry reaching toward the seventh circle of hell.
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Local options include creeks, lakes and even a quarry.
    — Alexandra Maloney june 9, Charlotte Observer, 9 June 2026
  • Gamblers have met at Hoodoo ski area and a pumice quarry in Chemult.
    — oregonlive, 23 June 2022
  • The state park's trails circle the quarry, and traces of its not-so-distant past can be spotted along the way.
    — Madeline Bilis, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Perched on the quarry’s edge was a chain-link fence to prevent visitors like us from falling in.
    — Walter Nicklin, Washington Post, 16 June 2022
  • About half of the moai were left in the quarry where they were carved and the other half were hauled up to 11 miles away.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The type of habitat your quarry utilizes also plays a factor.
    — Josh Honeycutt, Field & Stream, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The Crotch quarries used to have some fifteen hundred workers.
    — Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The cave is part of a quarry, where the first mandible was discovered in 1969.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Globally, more than one million children work in mines and quarries.
    — Xanthe Scharff, Time, 22 Sep. 2025
  • This is where Ailsa Craig and the Trefor quarry come in.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 10 Feb. 2026
  • For many years, the site was a gravel quarry and later became a dumping site, the website said.
    — Gloria Casas, chicagotribune.com, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Streets in the center of town are paved in marble from the nearby quarries of Carrara.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The train was then filmed being destroyed by falling and crashing into a quarry.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 7 July 2023
  • Gravel is a mixture of small natural rock fragments that are sourced from quarries or riverbeds.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Local artisans would have carved the designs at a quarry or a workshop.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 July 2022
  • The former quarry has been the backdrop for scenes in 236 feature films.
    — Debbi Kickham, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Much to his relief, Richard Goodman didn’t have to go out in a boat to nab his wide-mouthed quarry.
    — Megan Molteni and Elaine Chen, STAT, 30 Sep. 2023

quarry

2 of 2 verb
  • Then, workers would have quarried the ditch around the statue later to complete the sphinx's body.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The pool and quarry her shop uses for training closed during the initial shutdown.
    — Washington Post, 17 July 2020
  • Many thousands died during building, quarrying and mining work for the pharaohs.
    — Vanessa Taylor, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
  • There also were drops in mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction, as well as wholesale trade.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
  • It’s known as Lasa marble, quarried in Italy and brought in by a Vermont importer.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Was it related to quarrying building stones?
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 16 May 2026
  • The crates contained fossils that had been found at a limestone quarry some two hundred miles to the southwest, in the town of Taung.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Mix grains of cobalt, mined in Labrador, with potash, quarried in Saskatchewan, and whisks of beaver tail, all of it steeped over sharp, jagged Yukon ice.
    — Scott Simon, NPR, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Finally, Marilyn is not presented as a cipher to be solved or quarry to be caged.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
  • These buildings were made of Lutetian limestone, the stone that built Paris, quarried right here since Roman times.
    — Anelise Chen june 3, Literary Hub, 3 June 2025
  • It can be found all over the world, and once quarried, is used as stackable rocks, bricks, panels, or crushed into gravel to be used as aggregate in concrete.
    — Francesca Perry, CNN Money, 3 July 2025
  • Its blue-limestone exterior, quarried on the grounds, illuminates in the cool sun reflected off the small lake to the north.
    — Josh Condon, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Those were frugal, pragmatic solutions; every stone that could be reused was another one that didn’t have to be quarried, cut, hauled, and placed.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 27 June 2025
  • Around 75 percent of the marble quarried in the Carrara region isn’t even used to build buildings or make sculptures.
    — Meara Sharma, The Dial, 22 July 2025
  • At its deepest depths, close to 130 feet below the surface, Greeks quarried great caverns from the rock to build the city’s landmarks.
    — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2024
  • The old Grimes quarry according to evidence at trial was subpar, having been quarried and abandoned.
    — Peter J Reilly, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
  • New jobs came from the health care sector, but were offset by losses in the federal government as well as in mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The principle is reinforced in this case by the fact that there had been quarrying going on and it was abandoned because the granite coming out was not of very high quality.
    — Peter J Reilly, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
  • Floors are covered in a traditional gray stone quarried in Lombardy while other parts of the store are dressed in the same pink and white marble seen at the Duomo.
    — Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Artisans quarried and carved most of the statues in supine position, with the majority carved from the top down, although others were extracted from the side.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Though the purpose of the tunnel remains unclear, researchers theorize it may have been carved to reach a chalk layer used for quarrying building stones or producing lime.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026
  • This legacy has continued to this day with a controversial proposal to quarry and crush limestone from an open pit in Parleys Canyon.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The monument remains a sacred native site for quarrying pipestone after more than 3,000 years.
    — Katy Spratte Joyce, Midwest Living, 7 May 2026
  • They are also known to trick miners into quarrying worthless ore, following veins of what appears to be copper or silver, but when smelted, is found to be without value or, worse, poisonous.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Whereas quartz countertops are man-made, granite is a naturally occurring stone, quarried from the earth, then cut and polished into the countertop material so many know and love.
    — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Whereas quartz countertops are man-made, granite is a naturally occurring stone, quarried from the earth, then cut and polished into the countertop material so many know and love.
    — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Fifty miles west of Tulsa in Stroud, the Rock Cafe opened in 1939 from sandstone quarried out of Route 66’s own roadbed.
    — Heide Brandes, Bon Appetit Magazine, 13 May 2026
  • Some had a practical reason for venturing underground—quarrying stone for building material, digging out cisterns or mining salt.
    — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2024
  • Decades ago, people actually did quarry Morro Rock, including with explosives.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The gypsum—a type of mineral—used for the burial would have come at a high cost, and the stone coffin was not only beautifully carved, but also made from stone quarried more than 30 miles away, adding to the costs of transportation.
    — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025

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