quarry
noun
an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
had quarried
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past perfectof quarry.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Once, it was said, they had quarried immense blocks of ice from frozen lakes deep in the haunted forest, dragging them south on sledges so the Wall might be raised ever higher.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
If the workmen had quarried faulty stones in the caverns, the temple would have been spoiled.
From Making the Most of Life by J. R. (James Russell) Miller
And again his thoughts began to encroach stealthily on that forbidden ground, in whose insurmountable barriers the preacher's words themselves had quarried access.
From Regina or the Sins of the Fathers by Hermann Sudermann
It was a small cavernous opening out of which, in years past, men had quarried stone.
From Lancashire Idylls (1898) by Marshall Mather
In the old days convicts had quarried lime rocks.
From When Egypt Went Broke by Holman Day
