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Definition of strip mine in English: strip minenoun North American An opencast mine. Example sentencesExamples - The western reclaimed strip mines may support the largest Henslow's Sparrow populations in the Northeast.
- Boss Hogg wants to create a strip mine in Hazzard County.
- For many yesterday, that meant an early-morning drive, a pilgrimage of sorts, to a strip mine turned into a cemetery.
- But I'd hate to live next to one of the huge strip mines in Tennessee or the pit mines in Wyoming or the iron mines in Minnesota.
- Peabody operates two adjoining strip mines, yielding about 12 million tons of coal annually, under agreements with the two tribes.
- The wells are better than strip mines for the coal itself, but the governors suggest camouflaging the wells.
- The governor called the former strip mine site a ‘battlefield unlike others in our nation's history.’
- But what 30 years of strip mines haven't destroyed, they've closed off and guarded.
- Among its surprises are a 96-yard par 3 and a series of back-nine holes in a strip mine of vertical limestone walls, outcroppings and fossils.
- In strip mine spoils in southeastern Ohio, values may be as low as pH 2.0.
- AAP forwards further proof that by 2006 the Lower East Side will be no more than a gaping strip mine of architectural ooze.
- But it also indicated there were conflicting views on strip mine legislation within the union.
- If approved, this would be the largest strip mine ever opened in Tennessee.
- The aircraft hit the ground beside an abandoned strip mine near the village of Shanksville at 10.06 am.
- Subsequently, the Indiana state legislature passed a strip mine control bill in 1941.
- The removal of rubble has become industrial in scale, with huge lorries with six-foot wheels normally used in strip mines carting it away.
- But it is generally a very much smaller threat than, say, a strip mine.
- Four years ago, this 360 acres was Peabody Coal Company's long-abandoned Victoria strip mine outside Newburgh, Ind.
- The giant 757, carrying forty-four people, crashed at 500 miles an hour into a reclaimed strip mine.
- For me the first thing that comes to mind (this is before I got to West Virginia) is strip mines.
verb [with object]North American 1Obtain (ore or coal) by opencast mining. lignite coal is strip-mined at depths of 15 to 35 metres Example sentencesExamples - He has been, in effect, strip-mining the emotional responses of blue-collar men to the problems his own administration is so intent on causing.
- Local cultures and political economies are being strip-mined, pre-empted, or in some cases flat-out destroyed.
- In all forms of popular media, every new idea is strip-mined for irony as soon as it's out of the box.
- The coal has been strip-mined throughout much of the region, permanently scarring the landscape.
- It's just strip-mining the action genre to please the audience.
- It isn't so much a case of technology transfer as digital strip-mining.
- But by this time the groundfish stocks were so depleted that many factory trawlers had already moved on to strip-mine elsewhere.
- Here the company operates the world's largest coal strip-mining operation.
- He is someone who has been strip-mined of ordinary emotion by life and by the job.
- This filthy coal is strip-mined locally and stored in long ridges across the landscape.
- Anglo-American humanities academics has been strip-mining 20th Century European thinkers and writers for the last 30-40 years.
- Their upstream neighbor to the north is a phosphate strip-mining company called Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan.
- DVDs are causing a least some significant if very random strip-mining of the classical cinema.
Synonyms quarry, excavate, dig, dig up, extract, unearth, remove, draw, scoop out - 1.1 Subject (an area of land) to opencast mining.
after being strip-mined, the land is reclaimed Example sentencesExamples - Most of the land surrounding the ruins has been strip-mined for the near-surface nitrate deposits.
- I learned the contours of the strip-mined land as the pines grew.
- In 1966 the Hopi tribal council signed a lease with Peabody Coal Company to strip mine a 25,000 acre area in the Navajo-Hopi Joint Use Area.
- To our right, the landscape looked as barren as Mars; it had been strip-mined for copper, and had never recovered.
- Just have him throw something together about a car race and the bad guy, Boss Hogg, buying up land so he can strip-mine it.
- Earlier this summer, city planners gave Betters approval to strip mine the site.
- For the past 20 to 30 years, companies have been required to reclaim and restore to the original contours the area they strip-mine.
- Once the Dine realised what strip-mining was doing to their land, they filed a law suit, which was rejected.
- Wow, I can't believe the Rylan senator's motion to strip mine the earth and enslave humanity passed unanimously.
Definition of strip mine in US English: strip minenoun North American An open-pit mine. Example sentencesExamples - Four years ago, this 360 acres was Peabody Coal Company's long-abandoned Victoria strip mine outside Newburgh, Ind.
- But I'd hate to live next to one of the huge strip mines in Tennessee or the pit mines in Wyoming or the iron mines in Minnesota.
- Subsequently, the Indiana state legislature passed a strip mine control bill in 1941.
- But what 30 years of strip mines haven't destroyed, they've closed off and guarded.
- The wells are better than strip mines for the coal itself, but the governors suggest camouflaging the wells.
- If approved, this would be the largest strip mine ever opened in Tennessee.
- The removal of rubble has become industrial in scale, with huge lorries with six-foot wheels normally used in strip mines carting it away.
- In strip mine spoils in southeastern Ohio, values may be as low as pH 2.0.
- But it is generally a very much smaller threat than, say, a strip mine.
- But it also indicated there were conflicting views on strip mine legislation within the union.
- Boss Hogg wants to create a strip mine in Hazzard County.
- Among its surprises are a 96-yard par 3 and a series of back-nine holes in a strip mine of vertical limestone walls, outcroppings and fossils.
- The western reclaimed strip mines may support the largest Henslow's Sparrow populations in the Northeast.
- For many yesterday, that meant an early-morning drive, a pilgrimage of sorts, to a strip mine turned into a cemetery.
- For me the first thing that comes to mind (this is before I got to West Virginia) is strip mines.
- The aircraft hit the ground beside an abandoned strip mine near the village of Shanksville at 10.06 am.
- Peabody operates two adjoining strip mines, yielding about 12 million tons of coal annually, under agreements with the two tribes.
- AAP forwards further proof that by 2006 the Lower East Side will be no more than a gaping strip mine of architectural ooze.
- The governor called the former strip mine site a ‘battlefield unlike others in our nation's history.’
- The giant 757, carrying forty-four people, crashed at 500 miles an hour into a reclaimed strip mine.
verb [with object]North American 1Obtain (ore or coal) by open-pit mining. lignite coal is strip-mined at depths of 45 to 100 feet Example sentencesExamples - He has been, in effect, strip-mining the emotional responses of blue-collar men to the problems his own administration is so intent on causing.
- It's just strip-mining the action genre to please the audience.
- Here the company operates the world's largest coal strip-mining operation.
- The coal has been strip-mined throughout much of the region, permanently scarring the landscape.
- DVDs are causing a least some significant if very random strip-mining of the classical cinema.
- Local cultures and political economies are being strip-mined, pre-empted, or in some cases flat-out destroyed.
- Anglo-American humanities academics has been strip-mining 20th Century European thinkers and writers for the last 30-40 years.
- But by this time the groundfish stocks were so depleted that many factory trawlers had already moved on to strip-mine elsewhere.
- This filthy coal is strip-mined locally and stored in long ridges across the landscape.
- In all forms of popular media, every new idea is strip-mined for irony as soon as it's out of the box.
- It isn't so much a case of technology transfer as digital strip-mining.
- He is someone who has been strip-mined of ordinary emotion by life and by the job.
- Their upstream neighbor to the north is a phosphate strip-mining company called Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan.
Synonyms quarry, excavate, dig, dig up, extract, unearth, remove, draw, scoop out - 1.1 Subject (an area of land) to open-pit mining.
Example sentencesExamples - Once the Dine realised what strip-mining was doing to their land, they filed a law suit, which was rejected.
- I learned the contours of the strip-mined land as the pines grew.
- To our right, the landscape looked as barren as Mars; it had been strip-mined for copper, and had never recovered.
- Just have him throw something together about a car race and the bad guy, Boss Hogg, buying up land so he can strip-mine it.
- Most of the land surrounding the ruins has been strip-mined for the near-surface nitrate deposits.
- In 1966 the Hopi tribal council signed a lease with Peabody Coal Company to strip mine a 25,000 acre area in the Navajo-Hopi Joint Use Area.
- For the past 20 to 30 years, companies have been required to reclaim and restore to the original contours the area they strip-mine.
- Earlier this summer, city planners gave Betters approval to strip mine the site.
- Wow, I can't believe the Rylan senator's motion to strip mine the earth and enslave humanity passed unanimously.
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