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Meanings of quarry in English
Synonyms
Examples for "pit"
Examples for "pit"
1
They went in to the pit; and I went in after them.
2
Power received a penalty for coming into Takuma Sato exiting his pit.
3
Thou sattest in one bucket beneath in the pit in great dread.
4
He slipped away into the gloom in the direction of the pit.
5
Which when you're looking for a pit-stop can often swing the vote.
1
Asterin's shout echoed, but Manon was falling, plunging the forty feet right into the stone pit.
2
Over there a stone pit; faces grown like the faces of beasts, a picked-up rabble of assassins.
3
As the beast inside roared with hunger, the walls around him became a stone pit slick with scum.
4
The one room was dimly lit by a small fire crackling in the stone pit set into the right sod-and-timber wall.
5
Indeed, behind the open jaws, where the throat would open up was now a dark stone pit set with iron rungs.
Usage of quarry in English
1
The men in the stone-quarry were the strongest men in the world.
2
She will obviously have to wait, however, until the quarry is empty.
3
He is run away in fear to hide in the Barrington quarry.
4
He said that Sunway owns 12 businesses ranging from quarry to property.
5
I want to see the effects of the explosive on the quarry.
6
The best stone, from the quarry where Aaron and his father worked.
7
Ruth traps the squirrels and sets them free in a nearby quarry.
8
I found a very fine haystack in a field overlooking the quarry.
9
Still the citizens pressed in around their true quarry, which was Zed.
10
But later they made another tiger-spring for their quarry in the courts.
11
The latter crept away and followed, gradually closing in upon his quarry.
12
Here gather the eagles to the feast, for the quarry is defenceless.
13
The note rose and fell as she circled somewhere behind the quarry.
14
The dog had left him and was gone round into the quarry.
15
They go to the quarry and back on the hand car daily.
16
His eyes are sensitive after years of work in a limestone quarry.
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New Zealand
Common
Ireland
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United Kingdom
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