Example Sentences

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It said "coffee disappearance," a term indicating the amount of coffee nonproducing countries are actually consuming and not packing for re-export, rose 6.9% in the first quarter compared to the same period a year earlier.

From Reuters • May 20, 2022

Last year, the state oil and gas agency plugged and abandoned two nonproducing wells on Firmin Street that were found to be releasing methane and hydrogen sulfide gas.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2017

It can also be used to buy back stock or reinvest in the business, neither of which apply to a nonproducing asset like gold.

From US News • Jun. 22, 2016

The city, which has been under Islamic State control since June, is roughly 300 miles east of Tripoli and just north of a range of potentially lucrative — but presently nonproducing — Libyan oil fields.

From Washington Times • Aug. 17, 2015

Most odd to contemplate; this glassy barren, nonproducing, uncultivated and unmined, waste and sterile, was yet a better money-maker than the best placer or the richest loam land of all Hillsboro.

From Stepsons of Light by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove