Example Sentences
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The company’s construction-products arm—which includes 109 quarries and yards, nine asphalt plants and 19 terminals—recorded roughly 35 million tons of aggregates shipments last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Number two was Vulcan Materials, which operates rock quarries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
Not surprisingly, a perfect Sunday for Wareheim involves shopping for plants and perusing rock yards and quarries, though he won’t divulge exactly where.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2025
But many sections of green belt today contain intensive farming units, industrial buildings, quarries and golf courses.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025
They grow up and work in the fields or in the quarries.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
