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Quarry in sentence

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This first of the two strategies is like a hunter, exploring a forest in search of a particular quarry, who finds other quarries along the way.
The second strategy of research is to study a subject broadly searching for unknown phenomena or patterns of known phenomena like a hunter in what we call "the naturalist's trance," the researcher of mind is open to anything interesting, any quarry worth taking.
I mean, these people had nothing, and they were so petrified, they wanted to give up, but the woman in the center rallied for them to persevere, and abolitionists on the ground helped them get a quarry lease of their own, so that now they do the same back-breaking work, but they do it for themselves, and they get paid for it, and they do it in freedom.
It was approaching 11 when I exited right toward Afula, and passed a large quarry and was soon in Kfar Kara.
This is actually a Spanish quarry, which sort of inspired the kind of spaces that these galleries could be.
This figure here shows the stormwater park that they're building by hooking a series of stormwater collection systems, or storm sewers, and routing that water into an abandoned gravel quarry.
The water that's captured in the quarry is slowly passed through a man-made wetland, and then it goes into that ball field there and percolates into the ground, recharging the drinking water aquifer of the city.
And after three more hard, really brutal field seasons, the quarry came to look like this.
So we found this tiny vein in a huge quarry in Portugal with this beautiful stone, which the owner had kept for seven generations in his family, waiting for the right project, if you can believe it.
A 16-year-old quarry worker.
But more than a decade ago, we had to embrace uncertainty and put on our boots, roll up our sleeves and move to the quarry for a hands-on experience.
Now, luckily, we convinced the quarry team to help us build a few prototypes to resolve some of the technical details.
And once built and tested, moving it to the final site in the city center to unite it with the rest of the building was a piece of cake, because by having isolated uncertainty and managed risk in the controlled environment of the quarry, we were able to complete the whole building in time and on budget, even if using nonconventional means and methods.
They are basically the transport system on a quarry run by a slaveholder.
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.
Shot in some of the most beautiful countryside in the world, Everything Is Illuminated delivers tension between the translator and his grandfather, and of the help that Jonathan needs to find his quarry.
That a no-name hack-tor off the street could salvage such a dishwater film is no less likely than a villain committing murder by dropping stones into a quarry for an unsuspecting diver.
The rest of the film plods from one ploy to the next as the relentless Drake pursues her quarry.
The picture has plenty of action and suspense as Stewart closes in on his quarry.
It is also interesting to note that many of the scenes were filmed on location in Liverpool, so you get to see the actual quarry, Strawberry Fields, etc.
In this "jungle adventure advertised as a horror film" (thanks Psychotronic Film Encylopedia) Pleasance is supposed to be a big game hunter with an Ahab-esquire obsession with his quarry.
Grizzly Rage is the tale of a group of teenagers who embark upon one of those supremely misguided road-trips, and, for whatever reason, decide to trespass into a wooded quarry, and cheese off a local grizzly bear.
The band of thugs, unlike the group chasing Chato, were up to the job of killing Valdez, but found their quarry to be more elusive than they had bargained for.
You can hit the fast forward button until the quarry scene, near the end.
Then watch for the second best part of the film crashing off the top of the stone quarry.
But Xi must now shift his focus from bagging another quarry to winning over new and perhaps unexpected allies.
But China is treading carefully enough that it can continue to advance its goals, without spooking its intended quarry.
An old quarry was being widened and leveled, and the boys followed the bulldozers as they scraped away a stratum of earth to reveal fragile, fossil-bearing shale underneath.
The boys who found the specimen didn’t own the fossil quarry.
Born to an impoverished family in a stone quarry in Rajasthan, I knew how to crack rocks before I could spell my name.