Quarries is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for QUARRIES in dictionary:

VERB:
• QUARRY, to dig for stone
• extract (stone or other materials) from a quarry
• cut into (rock or ground) to obtain stone or other materials
NOUN:
• a place, typically a large, deep pit, from which stone or other materials are or have been extracted
• an animal pursued by a hunter, hound, predatory mammal, or bird of prey
• a thing or person that is chased or sought
• a diamond-shaped pane of glass as used in lattice windows
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to dig stone from an excavation

Words related to QUARRIES

quarried18 quarry18 quarrying22

How to use QUARRIES in a sentence

• He formed one of a band of prisoners who were returning from the quarries late in the afternoon.
• The hills in front were scarred with old quarries, once worked for the celebrated Phrygian marble.
• With a sudden rush our men had leaped on the advance trenches and driven the Russians from their position in the quarries.
• The rock is now found to be perforated by a great many subterranean passages, the remains, probably, of ancient quarries.
• We next come to the fortress and quarries of Kertassi, which will be partly flooded.
• The ancient quarries in the island of Paros are still wrought, though very little marble from this source is exported to other countries.
• Near the quarries was a sanctuary of Hestia, with a statue of the goddess, which, though unprotected in the open air, was believed never to be touched by rain.
• Colonel Leake supposes that the extensive quarries on the road from Khoorukun and Bulwudun are those of the ancient Docimenum.
• The ancients obtained large blocks of alabaster from quarries in Thebes in Egypt, in the neighbourhood of Damascus, and on Mount Taurus.
• Here and there were stone quarries and stagnant pools.
• The quarries had not been worked for half a century.
• In a few steps he met the short captain who governed the quarries.
• Then it occurred to Kenkenes that there was not a woman in sight about the quarries.
• Away to the south, behind them, were the quarries of Masaarah.
• The fan-bearer stood between her and the Nile, his servant between her and the quarries.
• When Atsu emerged from the mouth of the little valley into the quarries some time after the midday meal, he was confronted by the murket and the royal scribe.
• The boat, which lay against the bank of the canal near the quarries, was loaded so heavily that it was brought as low in the water as was safe.
• The finest Concord granite, from the best quarries in New Hampshire, is the material used in the entire facade, as well as in the Sixth avenue side.
• The remainder of the church is to be constructed of white marble, from the Pleasantville quarries, in Westchester county.
• Quite lately, it is said, a tree in the garden of the Luxembourg fell through, owing to the water working a passage down into the quarries, by following its roots.
• Quantities of marble were formerly taken from quarries in the vicinity.
• On reaching these quarries we dismounted, to obtain a closer view of them.
• On one side are small houses, on the other the long wall of the Government quarries.
• The troops we came down to see were at rest in a chain of caves which had begun life as quarries and had been fitted up by the army for its own uses.
• As the Portland quarries were carried to great depths the thickness of bed increased, as it usually does in quarries.
• From the quarries I got up by an old pack horse road, to a commanding elevation at the top of the moors.

Similar words containing QUARRIE without suffix s

quarried18 quarrier17 quarriers18 unquarried20

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