broken coal
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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In the countryside, wide fissures rent the fields, irrigation canals were broken, coal mines caved in.
From Time Magazine Archive
In civil life he would have shovelled the broken coal into a "hutch," and "hurled" it away to the shaft.
From The First Hundred Thousand by Hay, Ian
It has been recommended that infirm and finely broken coal be washed and compressed, thus avoiding the wasting of slack coal, which was formerly thrown away or burned.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by Leith, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)
The ray travelled down a moraine of broken coal, so broad at the base that it covered the whole cellar floor, but narrowing upwards and towards the manhole through which the daylight shone.
From True Tilda by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
The iron gates that held back the broken coal were quickly shut and the long chutes were empty.
From Burnham Breaker by Greene, Homer
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