How to Use smelter in a Sentence

smelter

noun
  • Trina Bunger has lived her life next to this smelter.
    — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 8 May 2026
  • The smelter is in a room roughly the size of a walk-in closet.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Then, six years ago, a towering smelter rose next to his home.
    — Peter S. Goodman Ulet Ifansasti, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • In another, men make paving stones with slag from the lead smelters.
    — National Geographic, 31 May 2016
  • The smelter featured more than a dozen potrooms, each a few hundred yards long.
    — Mark Dent, WIRED, 11 July 2019
  • The company then sells its output to smelters to be melted down and reused.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Next it would be trucked out to a smelter, likely in another country.
    — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
  • But the company shut down the smelter in 2012.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 May 2026
  • The firm owns coal and manganese mines as well as aluminum smelters in South Africa.
    — Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
  • The aluminum smelter was opened 10 years later to feed off the plant’s power.
    — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 2 July 2018
  • But the site under the Hoan Bridge has proven most popular with smelters.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The workshop owner then sold it to a gold smelter, who recast the metal with other items.
    — CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Most of the on-site waste was sealed in a landfill next to the smelter building along Lake George.
    — Michael Hawthorne, chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2018
  • If copper is selling for $4 a pound, the smelter can buy the boards for $1 and make a tidy profit.
    — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • The conflict over the smelter re-design has shaken unions across Codelco.
    — Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The tariffs raise prices for aluminum, which helps smelters, the companies that make raw aluminum here.
    — New York Times, 4 July 2018
  • But behind the smelter, farmers complained that their hopes had been extinguished.
    — Peter S. Goodman Ulet Ifansasti, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Vast sums must be invested to build refineries and smelters to turn that ore into metal.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2017
  • Aluminum smelters extract refined metals from ores.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 July 2023
  • Mines, textile factories and steel smelters began to close across the country as demand fell.
    — Noemie Bisserbe, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
  • The property Google wants to develop used to be an aluminum smelter.
    — oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2021
  • David was living roughly 90 miles away in Great Falls and working at a zinc smelter.
    — Serge F. Kovaleski, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The land for decades was used for an aluminum smelter, power plant and coal mining but was later restored with lakes and farmland.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 26 July 2023
  • Begley and her husband bought their home in 2001, when the zinc smelter was running.
    — Hannah Rappleye, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2021
  • My grandfather was born in New Mexico to a father who worked at a smelter.
    — Perla Trevizo, ProPublica, 10 Nov. 2011
  • Caliche, sage, sulphur from the smelter, wood fires from Mexican shacks by the Rio Grande.
    — Longreads, 9 Jan. 2016
  • The toxins had entered the soil over one hundred years before, when the smelter was operational in town.
    — Erik Wecks, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2012
  • Trail, British Columbia, is home to one of the world’s largest lead and zinc smelters and refineries.
    — Becky Kramer, The Seattle Times, 7 May 2018
  • An Omaha lead smelter spread dust that seeped into the soil and bodies of many residents.
    — Chris Bowling, ProPublica, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Drawn by that pitch, aluminum smelters began flocking to the island in the 1990s.
    — Justin Worland/reykjavik, Time, 25 July 2017

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