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Example sentences for "mined"

Lexicographically close words:
minding; mindit; mindless; minds; mine; minefield; minefields; minence; minent; minently
  1. Yes," Johns objected, "but those test wells we mined were only a few hundred feet deep.

  2. All right: "Remember how you laughed when I told you that oil would some day be mined instead of pumped or flowed from the earth?

  3. Nickel= is found in the ores pyrrhotite and garnierites, mined in largest amount in New Caledonia and Canada.

  4. Chalcocite (copper sulphide) is mined in Montana, malachite and azurite (carbonates of copper) in Arizona and metallic copper in Michigan.

  5. Much of that mined in New York and Alabama is of very high grade.

  6. It is mined in India, Canada, North Carolina and South Dakota.

  7. Copper is largely mined in some sections, being found in a pure state in Chiapas and Guanajuato, and elsewhere associated with gold.

  8. The remainder is mined in Bolivia, Australia, Tasmania and Cornwall, England.

  9. Copper has been mined to a considerable extent both in Quebec and Ontario, and the deposits of the ore are of great extent.

  10. Rock asphalts are mined in France, Switzerland, Sicily, California, Kentucky and Oklahoma.

  11. Rock flint is mined in Connecticut and Pennsylvania, and also comes from the chalk cliffs of England and France.

  12. It is mined in Canada, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New York, Maine and Norway, and ground up for use in pottery making.

  13. Zinc is mined chiefly in Cracow and Carinthia.

  14. Chrome= is mined in Asia Minor, Greece, Canada, New Caledonia and California.

  15. It is mined in France, Ireland, Austria, Arkansas, Alabama and Georgia, and is refined by electric processes.

  16. The channel out to sea is probably mined and netted.

  17. He had in mind the fact that the approach to the waterway for which the destroyer was headed most certainly was mined and that without a chart of the course he was running the risk of driving into one of the dangerous buoys.

  18. Copper, on the contrary, is only mined in one or two localities; and it is never manufactured on the spot.

  19. One half of the anthracite coal in the United States is mined in Pennsylvania.

  20. A superior quality of kaolin, or china clay, is mined in large quantities in Cape Girardeau County.

  21. Today no coal is mined there save for the fire-clay industry or other immediate local use.

  22. In order to cheer us up the captain showed us the charts, on which the mined areas were indicated by diagonal shadings, little red arrows pointing the way between them along channels as narrow and devious as a forest trail.

  23. I farmed with him one summer, then I went to Fairbury, Livingston county, and mined coal until 1864.

  24. We mined there until fall and did very well, when we sold out for $1,500 to Eph Day, who at one time was the treasurer of the Oregon Navigation company.

  25. Bigler and his associates mined for two months about one mile below the saw-mill, dividing with Sutter and Marshall, who furnished tools and provisions.

  26. After all, Mr. Secretary, gold is mined right here in the Philippines.

  27. They were tough-looking customers who wore hard-rock miner's helmets, a sign that they had mined gold in Baguio.

  28. In addition to this, it possesses copper-mines inferior to none in the world, and coal will probably be mined extensively before many years.

  29. They mined beneath this place and it blew up with a roaring blast which flung up tons of soil in a black mass.

  30. Another German officer remained hiding in the church, which was so heavily mined that it would have blown half the village into dust and ashes if he had touched off the charges.

  31. Sometimes it was the enemy who mined under our position, blowing a few men to bits and scattering the sand-bags.

  32. The purest flints have the most perfect conchoidal fracture, and prehistoric man is known to have quarried or mined certain bands of flint which were specially suitable for his purposes.

  33. The material as mined usually does not contain more than 20 to 50% of graphite: the ore has therefore to be crushed and the graphite floated off in water from the heavier impurities.

  34. Illustration] Gothite occurs with other iron oxides, especially limonite and hematite, and when found in sufficient quantity is mined with these as an ore of iron.

  35. Although US, UK, Dutch, and Swedish coal companies have mined in the past, the only companies still mining are Norwegian and Russian.

  36. The rehabilitation of mined land and the replacement of income from phosphates are serious long-term problems.

  37. They told us, as they passed, that they would have the gold in California all mined out before we got there.

  38. They went to Idaho and mined a while, and then on to Montana.

  39. As Peter mined one day, at the back of the king's wine Cellar, he broke into a cavern crusted with gems, and much wealth flowed therefrom, and the king used it wisely.

  40. The turquoise was mined with stone tools, and by the time it was removed from its matrix, cut, and polished, it represented a considerable investment of labor.

  41. For many centuries early Indians mined salt deposits in this locality and a few years ago a deposit of sodium sulphate near Camp Verde was worked commercially.

  42. This they mined a few miles southwest of present-day Camp Verde where their collapsed tunnels can be traced even today.

  43. Our engineers had mined the place, and as we fled the Germans poured down a gray horde of men.

  44. Sir,--The James River is mined with fifteen tanks below the Iron Battery at Chaffin's Bluff.

  45. Passes before an invading army may be mined in advance and thus if he cannot be destroyed, his progress may be so retarded by dress mines or sham mines as almost literally to dig his way.

  46. In a few months he had mined James River with fixed torpedoes to be exploded by electricity should the enemy attempt to pass, and a means thus indicated to protect the city.

  47. I hardly anticipate they have mined very deep here.

  48. However, she did not rise immediately when she was once more in the North Sea, for these waters were mined for miles, and it was necessary for the D-16 to pass under the mined area before coming again to the surface.

  49. Therefore, immediately the British fleet was sighted, he gave the command to come about and make for the protection of the mined area about Heligoland at full speed.

  50. Ten minutes' further steaming and the Germans had entered the protection of the mine field, where it would have been death for the British to have followed without a map of the mined area.

  51. I do not believe they have mined much as yet.

  52. They haven't the slightest idea an enemy could have penetrated the mined area safely," replied the commander of the submarine.

  53. There had been rumors that Montsec was mined and that as soon as a foot was set upon it it would blow up.

  54. Agriculture was highly developed; the people were clothed in substantial stuffs of their own manufacture; they mined copper, tin, and lead, and possessed excellent arms and tools.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mined" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    assembled; built; cast; custom; fabricated; forged; gathered; grown; handmade; homemade; homespun; made; manufactured; milled; mined; molded; prefabricated; processed; raised; refined; shaped; prefabricated; processed; raised; refined; shaped