COAL in a Sentence
Learn COAL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
108 example sentences for COAL, such as:
1. Stocks of coal are running low.
2. They burned coal to heat the room.
3. Supplies of coal are dwindling fast.
4. There is plenty of coal in this area.
5. This old coal face is to be reworked next week.
2. They burned coal to heat the room.
3. Supplies of coal are dwindling fast.
4. There is plenty of coal in this area.
5. This old coal face is to be reworked next week.
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Meanings and Examples of COAL
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coal
v. take in coal
n. a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering
Classic Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
1 But even on windless days the air always smelt of something under-earth: sulphur, iron, coal, or acid.
2 Some of them simply dreads those iron men, as they call them, those machines for hewing the coal, where men always did it before.
3 He simply felt life rush into him out of the coal, out of the pit.
4 At first he thought the solution lay in electricity: convert the coal into electric power.
5 It was a world of iron and coal, the cruelty of iron and the smoke of coal, and the endless, endless greed that drove it all.
6 Clifford's idea was, that his coal, even the poor sort, could be made into hard concentrated fuel that would burn at great heat if fed with certain damp, acidulated air at a fairly strong pressure.
7 If there were coal under Sandringham, I would open a mine on the lawns, and think it first-rate landscape gardening.
8 The iron and the coal had eaten deep into the bodies and souls of the men.
9 They had appeared out of nowhere in their thousands, when the coal had called for them.
10 Creatures of another reality, they were elementals, serving the elements of coal, as the metal-workers were elementals, serving the element of iron.
11 Men not men, but animas of coal and iron and clay.
12 They had perhaps some of the weird, inhuman beauty of minerals, the lustre of coal, the weight and blueness and resistance of iron, the transparency of glass.
13 But you can't nationalize coal and leave all the other industries as they are.
14 They talk about putting coal to new uses, like Sir Clifford is trying to do.
15 Even under a Soviet you've still got to sell coal: and that's the difficulty.
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1 There is plenty of coal in this area.
2 This old coal face is to be reworked next week.
3 With competition from cheap imports, the British coal industry is facing a serious crisis.
4 We've converted from coal to gas central heating.
5 Wood, coal, oil, petrol and gas are all different kinds of fuel.
6 The law would encourage companies to switch from coal to cleaner fuels.
7 Supplies of coal are dwindling fast.
8 It is less polluting than power stations fuelled by oil, coal and gas.
9 The government restructured the coal industry before selling it to private owners.
10 They burned coal to heat the room.
11 Germany, however, insists on restrictions on the import of Polish coal.
12 Britain's mineral resources include oil, coal and gas deposits.
13 Stocks of coal are running low.
14 He tried to regularize the management of coal mines.
15 Disagreement exists over the pattern of demand for coal.