bituminous

How to use bituminous in a sentence

• The country is the world’s leading exporter of coal, and while other countries move to sever ties with fossil fuels, Morrison pledged the opposite– famously bringing a lump of bituminous to a parliamentary debate.

  How Major Elections Around the World Will Shape Global Politics in 2022 | Eloise Barry | December 30, 2021 | Time

• There are four types: bituminous (soft), anthracite (hard), semi-bituminous and semi-anthracite.

  Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. Torpey

• More than 80% of Virginia's mining employment is in bituminous coal which is the chief mining product of the nation as a whole.

  Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. Torpey

• The odor of the petroleum first discovered was similar to that of the cheap bituminous coal.

  Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No. 3, October 1899 | Various

• They anoint their children with a bituminous ointment at their birth, to prevent the growth of hair.

  The Indian in his Wigwam | Henry R. Schoolcraft