How to Use clinker in a Sentence
clinker
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If this is what life in the clinker is like… well, lock us up.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 23 July 2021
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Smooth, shiny flows known as pāhoehoe and the cinder or clinker-like kind called ‘A‘ā.
—Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2022
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This method was used during the Viking Age as a way to make the vessel lighter and stronger and is known as clinker construction.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 12 Dec. 2022
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The recipe for cement requires lots of a key ingredient called clinker, the crumbly binding agent in the entire mixture.
—Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2022
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The Victoria was built with a carvel-planking method (as opposed to the clinker method) wherein wood planks were laid side-by-side rather than overlapping to increase the ship’s strength.
—Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2022
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The clinker is then ground into a fine powder and mixed with other materials, such as gypsum, to make cement.
—David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
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The living area has its the original woodwork and original clinker-brick fireplace.
—Alina Dizik, WSJ, 9 June 2022
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Vikings used clinker design—overlapping planks fastened with rivets and roves (right).
—National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
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To make cement, limestone and other clay-like materials are heated in a massive kiln and turned into a lumpy substance known as clinker.
—Benjamin Storrow, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2021
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Cement’s main ingredient, clinker, is produced by burning fossil fuels to heat a kiln containing powdered limestone, which releases carbon dioxide when heated.
—Maitane Sardon, WSJ, 3 June 2021
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Before that, shipbuilders primarily used traditional clinker construction methods, popular among the Vikings, which featured overlapping planks.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
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Using different raw materials for clinker could dramatically lower the remaining 60 percent of carbon emissions.
—Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
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Emissions-reduction proposals involve making processes more energy-efficient, switching to alternative fuels and using less clinker.
—Maitane Sardon, WSJ, 3 June 2021
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If this is what life in the clinker is like… well, lock us up.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 23 July 2021
-
Smooth, shiny flows known as pāhoehoe and the cinder or clinker-like kind called ‘A‘ā.
—Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2022
-
This method was used during the Viking Age as a way to make the vessel lighter and stronger and is known as clinker construction.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 12 Dec. 2022
-
The recipe for cement requires lots of a key ingredient called clinker, the crumbly binding agent in the entire mixture.
—Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2022
-
The Victoria was built with a carvel-planking method (as opposed to the clinker method) wherein wood planks were laid side-by-side rather than overlapping to increase the ship’s strength.
—Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2022
-
The clinker is then ground into a fine powder and mixed with other materials, such as gypsum, to make cement.
—David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
-
The living area has its the original woodwork and original clinker-brick fireplace.
—Alina Dizik, WSJ, 9 June 2022
-
Vikings used clinker design—overlapping planks fastened with rivets and roves (right).
—National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
-
To make cement, limestone and other clay-like materials are heated in a massive kiln and turned into a lumpy substance known as clinker.
—Benjamin Storrow, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2021
-
Cement’s main ingredient, clinker, is produced by burning fossil fuels to heat a kiln containing powdered limestone, which releases carbon dioxide when heated.
—Maitane Sardon, WSJ, 3 June 2021
-
Before that, shipbuilders primarily used traditional clinker construction methods, popular among the Vikings, which featured overlapping planks.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
-
Using different raw materials for clinker could dramatically lower the remaining 60 percent of carbon emissions.
—Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
-
Emissions-reduction proposals involve making processes more energy-efficient, switching to alternative fuels and using less clinker.
—Maitane Sardon, WSJ, 3 June 2021
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