mine - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • abandon: In Ukraine, we follow a group of miners so desperate for work that they've taken over an abandoned mine for themselves.
  • detonate: Engineers were given the task of tunneling underneath the enemy trench, with the intention of then detonating mines directly underneath the front line.
  • explode: Shipped out to Vietnam to serve on a river patrol vessel he was hospitalized by an exploding mine.

Converse of subject

  • sink: Britain's greatest soldier, Lord Kitchener, died on the cruiser HMS Hampshire, sunk by mines off Orkney's west coast in 1916.

Adjective modifier

  • anti-personnel: Land mines We would support a ban on all anti-personnel land mines.
  • disused: In more recent years the village was an important lead mining center and Carsington Pasture is still littered with disused lead mines.
  • gold: In addition, the appendix is a gold mine of information.
  • magnetic: Sub-Lieutenant Babington had experimented with the dismantling of all types of bombs and had worked on the first suspended parachute magnetic mines.
  • underground: IMC assisted in the development of safety plans and risk assessments for a new underground coal mine in Queensland.

Modifies a noun

  • shaft: He was located 40 ' down a mine shaft having spent 10 hours there.
  • clearance: Graham Goldsworthy, a former British Army officer, now works on land mine clearance in Central America.
  • working: Key to the scheme was the remediation of old mine workings to enable the bypass to cross the redeveloped areas.
  • eye: How would ( I say ) mine eyes be blessed made, By looking on thee in the liuing day?

Noun used with modifier

  • coal: Go to TOP Coal mines The coal mining area is in the center of the basin.
  • copper: The tin and copper mines were booming and a new industry china clay grew out of nothing.
  • tin: Mines varied in size from the smaller tin mines employing under fifty to the large copper mines employing over a thousand.
  • gold: I live in Chester and on the outskirts there is a little gold mine just waiting to be opened on an A road.
  • parachute: Disposed of parachute mine on land in a minefield at Mersa Matruh, Egypt in Sep 43.
  • ore: In England on one occasion in a little town where there were iron and ore mines, they would pile up the slag.

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