How to Use quicklime in a Sentence

quicklime

noun
  • The remains are believed to have been thrown into 70 different mass graves and covered in the quicklime to seal off the site.
    — Aritz Parra, Fox News, 28 Aug. 2018
  • Truth be told, the vats of pigeon excrement, cow urine and quicklime are quite pungent, but that’s part of the experience.
    — Lindsay Cohn, ELLE Decor, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The concrete is made of quicklime, or calcium oxide, and volcanic ash.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 6 July 2017
  • When mixed with water, quicklime reacts and produces heat.
    — WIRED, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The harbor concrete, a mixture of volcanic ash and quicklime, has withstood the sea for two millennia and counting.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 6 July 2017
  • His team then ran a series of tests using modern and ancient techniques with and without quicklime.
    — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 7 Jan. 2023
  • An article on Sunday about a far-right network in Germany misstated one of the uses of quicklime.
    — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2020
  • In a third container, these limestone pellets are heated to about 1000°C to create quicklime that can be reused and release carbon dioxide as a pure stream of gas.
    — Akshat Rathi, Quartz, 1 July 2019
  • But Masic and his colleagues wondered whether they were instead caused by the Romans using quicklime in their mix before setting it with water.
    — Byjacklin Kwan, science.org, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The Romans knew the binding properties of quicklime, but centuries later, its role in turning soil into structure had to be discovered all over again.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 4 Dec. 2021
  • The carbonate-rich rock is ground up and placed in the kiln along with clay, which fuses with the quicklime and contributes minerals that will eventually help the concrete resist cracks and weathering.
    — M. Mitchell Waldrop, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Other ingredients were less potable: camphor and quicklime, varnish and vinegar.
    — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2021
  • They had all been shot, wrapped in sheets, covered in quicklime and buried, along with the two family dogs.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Flare kilns were shaped like the top and neck of a bottle and used to burn chalk and limestone into quicklime, which would then be used for construction.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Allen used significant amounts of quicklime, a chemical powder, to boil the moisture from the dirt.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • To test the theory, his team created concrete both with and without quicklime.
    — WIRED, 3 Feb. 2023

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