quarried in English
As part of these efforts, prisoners dug sand for mortar, quarried building stone and mortar lime, and manufactured more than 1.2 million bricks.
Use "quarried" in a sentence
1. The area is being quarried for limestone.
2. Sand has been quarried, trees felled, and dunes leveled.
3. Salt is quarried at the Mayo mine in the Salt Range.
4. SRM 1d is composed of Argillaceous limestone quarried in Putnam County, Indiana, USA
5. Aymaran Cream Travertine is a kind of beige travertine quarried in Peru
6. They returned from Punt with incense, gum and perfumes, and quarried the Wadi Hammamat for stones.
7. Taking the slapstick route, he quarried for bits and shticks, not archetypes and myths.
8. The structure was built using hewn adobe stones quarried from Meycauayan, Binangonan and San Mateo, Rizal.
9. Copper and turquoise were mined at Wadi Maghareh in the Sinai, and alabaster was quarried from Hatnub.
10. Classic Limestone Combed is quarried in Finike, Turkey which is a city on the coast of the Mediterranean in South Turkey
11. Introduction Cementum / simply cement is derived (from Latin CAEMETUM, quarried stone) is a component of the tooth as well as the periodontium
12. The Blaenavon Ironworks, now a museum, was a major centre of iron production using locally mined or quarried iron ore, coal and limestone.
13. (Joshua 15:7, 62) At Jerusalem, a conduit was quarried through solid rock to bring springwater into the city. —2 Kings 20:20.
14. The Coquina stone was quarried in the area of present-day Anastasia State Park on Anastasia Island. Military engineers and stonemasons were brought from Spain
15. Antrim is a nearly 120 acre park surrounded by a quarried lake and the Olentangy Greenway Trail, great for running, walking, biking or skating
16. Dark bluish-gray Argillite (Metamudstone Member of the Cid Formation) is quarried by Jacobs Creek Stone Company from slate belt rocks in Montgomery and Davidson Counties, NC.
17. Fossilised crinoid Columnal segments extracted from limestone quarried on Lindisfarne, or found washed up along the foreshore, were threaded into necklaces or rosaries, and became known as St
18. ‘Blocks of Coquina were quarried for the Castillo from pits in present-day Anastasia State Recreation Area and then ferried by barge across Matanzas Bay to St
19. Well, you look at modern hunter gatherers like aboriginals, who quarried for stone axes at a place called Mount Isa, which was a quarry owned by the Kalkadoon tribe.
20. Matthew’s account adds: “Joseph took the body, wrapped it up in clean fine linen, and laid it in his new memorial tomb, which he had quarried in the rock-mass.
21. In the absence of such materials, the dam is built of quarried rock or unsorted pebbly or Bowldery deposits, and the impermeable core is constructed of ordinary concrete or asphaltic concrete.
22. The wooded slopes of the escarpment, an abrupt rise of some 60 m, are etched deeply by gorges with falls at their heads, most notably at NIAGARA FALLS, and are quarried for limestone.
23. Some 250 Australian, Scottish, and Italian stonemasons and their families relocated to a temporary settlement at Moruya, NSW, 300 km (186 mi) south of Sydney, where they quarried around 18,000 m3 (635,664 cu ft) of granite for the bridge pylons.
24. The legendary dome was once one of many in a Batholithic area encompassing 60 square miles on the border of Gillespie and Llano counties, but it was spared the fate of others that were heavily quarried for the construction of buildings and structures, from the state capitol in Austin to the coastal jetties.
25. Embedded in its battlements is a block of Carboniferous limestone known as the Blarney Stone (Cloch na Blarnan) or Stone of Eloquence.Various legends claim it was brought from afar, but that would have to be from somewhere with identical bedrock to Blarney, and it was obviously quarried nearby.
26. ‘Ashlar blocks’ ‘The ground or basement story of the Alabama capitol was constructed of traditional masonry consisting of Ashlar walls made of locally quarried sandstone.’ ‘The defensive wall was of fine Ashlar masonry with a pronounced batter.’ ‘It is built of rubble stone with Ashlar dressings on a …
27. ‘Ashlar blocks’ ‘The ground or basement story of the Alabama capitol was constructed of traditional masonry consisting of Ashlar walls made of locally quarried sandstone.’ ‘The defensive wall was of fine Ashlar masonry with a pronounced batter.’ ‘It is built of rubble stone with Ashlar dressings on a …
28. This was most obvious in the enthusiastic and animated discussion of the Clunch pit in the village of Orwell (that is, the site where Clunch had been quarried over generations, now no longer used for this purpose)--indeed, no discussion at the school over the course of our fieldwork generated as much excitement as the opportunity to describe the pit.