How to Use coalfield in a Sentence

coalfield

noun

• Dusk falls on the town of Logan, West Virginia in the southern coalfields region of the state.
  — Drew Kann, CNN, 14 June 2017
• Officials say the blast in the Marwar coalfields in Baluchistan province was caused by a buildup of methane gas in the mine.
  — Washington Post, 5 May 2018
• The state also took over Floyd and Breathitt counties, both located in the eastern coalfields.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 4 May 2018
• No place needed jobs more than the coalfields, where mechanization and cheap natural gas were putting miners out of work by the thousands.
  — Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020
• Many of his clients in the impoverished coalfields of eastern Kentucky and West Virginia have fought to keep their disability checks.
  — Bruce Schreiner, The Seattle Times, 14 July 2017
• Unclaimed horses have been spotted grazing on or near mines in the coalfields of Kentucky's Appalachian Mountains for years.
  — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 16 Jan. 2020
• The balance of power in the state swiftly shifted from the industrial centers of the North to the South, a region also helped by a growing number of miners for the burgeoning coalfields.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 21 June 2017
• Due to its geological features, the Geiseltal area — once a coalfield — contains thousands of fossils and can give researchers a better idea of what life looked like millions of years ago.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2022
• The Selby coalfield, also in the area, once employed three thousand five hundred people; today, Drax employs about seven hundred.
  — Sarah Miller, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2021
• But below the surface of this sprawling Donbas coalfield, a dwindling number of miners are still working, extracting a fuel that is emblematic of one of Ukraine’s biggest challenges.
  — Dalton Bennett, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022
• My view also includes the counties in the southern coalfields and other central Appalachian communities.
  — Judith Feinberg, STAT, 1 Dec. 2019
• Strachey’s 1719 drawing of a section through the Somerset coalfield provided Smith’s first revelation of the layers of sedimentary rocks and their fossils.
  — Jenny Uglow, The New York Review of Books, 23 Feb. 2021
• Amid coal’s steady decline, efforts are growing to repurpose former mines and lead the way to diversifying the state’s economy, creating jobs and cleaning up the environment, while helping to revive coalfield communities.
  — Kris Maher, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2021
• This village named Bluefield was, in reality, surrounded by black bituminous coalfields.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 21 July 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024