QUARRY in a Sentence

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For QUARRY, below is one of 24 sentences:
In a little while we had shut the door of the dark and empty sluice-house, and were passing through the quarry on our way back.

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 Meanings and Examples of QUARRY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
quarry
 n.  victim; object of hunt; hunted animal
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  There was a good quarry of limestone on the farm, and plenty of sand and cement had been found in one of the outhouses, so that all the materials for building were at hand.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
2  Huge boulders, far too big to be used as they were, were lying all over the bed of the quarry.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
3  Frequently it took a whole day of exhausting effort to drag a single boulder to the top of the quarry, and sometimes when it was pushed over the edge it failed to break.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
4  For a long time the quarry was full of snowdrifts and nothing could be done.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
5  And he moved off at his lumbering trot and made for the quarry.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
6  A steep, boulder-sprinkled hill lay upon the right which had in bygone days been cut into a granite quarry.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
7  Good, thought Huck, they will bury it in the old quarry.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
8  But they never stopped at the quarry.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
9  When he emerged at the quarry he felt secure, and so he picked up his nimble heels and flew.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
10  They had come up from the quarry and stood around the stile a while, and then went on around the garden fence.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV.
11  There was a quarry, empty and abandoned, near a building which was still like those in the city.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Ten End
12  , who just waited in silence, and took their top hats off while they looked round the quarry and wiped the sweat off their brows with their handkerchiefs.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Ten End
13  As he looked round, he saw the top floor of the building next to the quarry.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Ten End
14  In a little while we had shut the door of the dark and empty sluice-house, and were passing through the quarry on our way back.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIII
15  Nevertheless, I stole furtive glances behind me now and then to see that no avenging mate, older and bigger than my quarry, was racing up from the rear.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
Example Sentence:
1  The hunters lost sight of their quarry in the forest.
2  This mountain used to be the site for a quarry.
3  This mountain was the site for a quarry.
4  You mention you intend to start hunting, but you didn't say whether your quarry is small game or medium game.
5  I saw they quarry blocks of marble out of the hillside.