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.
have quarried
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present perfectof quarry.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Of the stones I have quarried to build my career, not one has been, or could have been, spared to waste as a missile.
From The Plum Tree by E. M. Ashe
The purest flints have the most perfect conchoidal fracture, and prehistoric man is known to have quarried or mined certain bands of flint which were specially suitable for his purposes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
The Ulster breed would have quarried, polished, exported a mountain or two long since.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Robert John Buckley
In Central America, if anywhere they must have quarried stone, in the strict sense of this term, but as yet there is no decisive evidence of the fact.
From Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Lewis H. Morgan
We understand how the Farnesi should have quarried the Coliseum for their palace.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds
