How to Use quarrying in a Sentence

quarrying

noun
  • Mining, quarrying and the oil and gas extraction industry shed the most jobs.
    — Ahtra Elnashar, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The temple is unique in that over-quarrying of sandstone led to the use of laterite for the roofed corridors.
    — Antonia Neubauer, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • Gradually, the forest was stripped of its greenery, thanks to rampant tree felling and stone quarrying.
    — Pragati Prava, Quartz India, 26 Jan. 2020
  • In Jerusalem, millennia of quarrying and destruction have left behind tons of small chips.
    — Andrew Lawler, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2022
  • That includes not just coal but also oil and gas extraction, metal ore mining, stone quarrying and other jobs.
    — Jim Drinkard, The Seattle Times, 12 June 2017
  • Obviously, there is no free lunch, and the problem here is quarrying, crushing, and transporting all that basalt.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The province’s economy is largely driven by its oil and gas extraction, as well as mining and quarrying.
    — Chantelle Lee, Time, 5 May 2026
  • Places with good stone for quarrying used the material for building and decoration.
    — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Construction crews filled many of them with cement while erecting new buildings and laying new roads, while miners destroyed others through quarrying.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2024
  • Pruitt’s staff pointed to job gains across the overall mining sector — which includes oil and natural gas drilling, metal ore mining and stone quarrying.
    — Mead Gruver, The Denver Post, 7 June 2017
  • That includes not just coal but also oil and gas extraction, metal ore mining, stone quarrying and other unrelated jobs.
    — Seth Borenstein, The Seattle Times, 6 June 2017
  • The towers of the temple entrance would have each stood at 59 feet high, but only 16 and a half feet of it exist today as a result of quarrying.
    — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The local council had commissioned excavations ahead of a major quarrying project.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 23 Oct. 2019
  • West Woods is a six square kilometer (four square mile) plateau, partially wooded and dotted with large sarsen boulders and pits from millennia of quarrying.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 30 July 2020
  • The mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction sector was the biggest driver of February’s output gain.
    — Kim MacKrael, WSJ, 1 May 2018
  • Within a few weeks, Christian had wired money to the bank and brought in a wooden model of the monument, and the quarrying and construction had begun.
    — Jill Neimark, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2013
  • Then there's the emerging hazard of anthropogenic earthquakes triggered by resource extraction such as mining and quarrying.
    — Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 27 Aug. 2017
  • Granite quarrying is a top local industry, employing about 2,000 in the area, Kubas said.
    — CBS News, 7 July 2022
  • Michelangelo was a native of the quarrying world, fluent in its ways, but the sculptor who chose the block, Agostino di Duccio, was largely ignorant of them.
    — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2016
  • Ushering in an era marked by recovery, agriculture and viticulture flourished again, alongside mining and granite quarrying.
    — Valentina Di Donato, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
  • Employment declines in mining and quarrying and the oil and gas extraction industries were particularly notable.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Originally a maritime hub and a center for granite quarrying, the town has evolved into a seaside tourism destination and continues to welcome visitors year-round.
    — Morgan Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2025
  • The Statistics Canada report said the mining, quarrying and oil-and-gas-extraction sector was the biggest driver of May’s gain in output.
    — Kim MacKrael, WSJ, 31 July 2018
  • Early in the Roman period, the region was the site of gravel quarrying, possibly used for the construction of Akeman Street, per the statement.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Feb. 2022
  • West Virginia’s mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction industry has always been a strong contributor to the state’s overall GDP.
    — Andrew Depietro, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • This makes the conservation of Pulau Ubin—a granite quarrying site in the 1970s that is now a nature area—particularly crucial for the survival of the species.
    — Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The vehicle in question is a load carrier, designed for use in quarrying and mining, and capable of working in convoy with other autonomous vehicles to pick up and transport material around a pre-programmed route.
    — David Vetter, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The Ministry of Mines and Energy, which is responsible for granting and regulating concessions for limestone quarrying, declined to comment.
    — Julia Wallace, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2017
  • In Canada, the manufacturing and extractives industries — mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction — performed handsomely in 2020.
    — Nana Ama Sarfo, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Cashman Dredging’s bid to begin large-scale quarrying work on the former Dow Chemical property drew intense local opposition last winter, brining more than 200 residents to protest against it at a hearing.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2024

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