How to Use strip mine in a Sentence

strip mine

noun

• The coal continues to come out of the ground today, not from underground mines but from a long black streak of strip mine in the second ridge, just outside town.
  — Richard Conniff, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022
• Both worked at the same active strip mine in western Jefferson County.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 26 Nov. 2021
• These are American landscapes where drill rigs and strip mines simply don’t belong.
  — Matt Lee-Ashley, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2018
• The land includes areas that had formerly been strip mined for lignite coal and then reclaimed, the lakes that have formed on top of those areas, and a 1,000 acre industrial site.
  — Rye Druzin, San Antonio Express-News, 23 May 2018
• Money said both victims worked at the Blue Creek Road location as security guards at an active strip mine.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 24 Nov. 2021
• The order is just the latest and certainly not the last development in what is shaping up to be a long and contentious fight over a strip mine in an area valued for recreation, wildlife and its water.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Aug. 2022
• What was once a forest brimming with diverse life, before becoming a denuded strip mine and then a weedy rubble pile, would be a forest again.
  — Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020
• Recovered from the mountain area Letšeng strip mine in January, the stone is believed to be the fifth-largest gem-quality diamond ever recovered.
  — Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2018
• The 80-year-old security guard gunned down at work at a western Jefferson County strip mine is being remembered as a man a faith, wisdom and a great love for his large family.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 29 Nov. 2021
• The giant facility is part of an industrial park that was built above a reclaimed strip mine dating back to when this region was a major coal producer.
  — Michael Corkery, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022
• Flight 93 went down on the barren site of an old strip mine, where generations of laborers had extracted bituminous coal.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
• On first blush, crafting almost commands the player to see the island as a mere strip mine—not to mention neighboring islands visited only for resource extraction and then forgotten forever.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2020
• Cuccinelli describes with outrage the economic conditions in southwestern Virginia, where many mountaintop strip mines have closed.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2018
• While upholding parts of the BLM’s analysis, Barlow faulted the agency for touting the strip mine’s economic impact without also examining what carbon pollution is doing to global climate systems.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024