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quarry

  • EN [ ˈkwɒri]
  • US [ ˈkwɑːri]
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English definition

    Noun

  • 1. a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence;

    • "he fell prey to muggers"
    • "everyone was fair game"
    • "the target of a manhunt"
  • 2. a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate;

    • "a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'"
  • 3. animal hunted or caught for food

    Verb

  • 1. extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry;

    • "quarry marble"

Example sentences

  • Yali Stone has been at natural quarry exploitation and granites international trade more than ten years.

  • We watched the workmen quarry out a hyge block of marble.

  • Millie Grace Akena was rolling paper beads near her home . She worked at a rock quarry.

  • The true dips are commonly observed in quarry faces, cuttings and cliffs etc.

  • I'm waiting with my net set; somehow I'll catch my quarry.

  • We have our own quarries: Oriental Cherry Red Quarry and Yellow Rust Granite Quarry.

  • Even then she was certain the quarry stirred with life.

  • It took the police several days to track down their quarry.

  • Students and teachers were just convenient quarry, what Timothy McVeigh ascollateral damage.

  • When the hunter rushed in after his quarry, he couldn't find it.

  • Attacking the buffalo from every direction the pride works together to topple its quarry.

  • Ensures and validates that a rehabilitation plan is conducted for each quarry.

  • Most of the packremained intent on the quarry , though.

  • Good, thought Huck, they will bury it in the old quarry.

  • The landscape design transforms a stone quarry into a tranquil, tropical oasis.

  • The idea was to create a form of cave or quarry like structure.

  • The hounds are getting close to their quarry.

  • In particular, neighbors complained of severe vibrations and heavy dust from blasting operations at the quarry.

  • Its tail is long and strong and it can hit its quarry dying.

  • This mountain was the site for a quarry.

  • Michelangelo obtained his marble from a quarry.

  • Their sleek , unmarred pelts are prime quarry for seal hunters.

  • The policeman watched his quarry go into a bar.

  • Each sentence seems a quarry of rich meditations.

  • Detectives kept the quarry under surveillance for weeks.

  • the site of a disused quarry

  • Uncle Jim took the air rifle and went on a recce to the far end of the quarry.

  • Three miles away there was a salvo of blasting in the quarry.

  • Quarry tiles are a popular kitchen flooring.

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