How to Use ore in a Sentence

ore

noun
Definition of orenext
  • Cast-iron skillets are used in a nod to the game’s use of ore.
    — Mark Kennedy, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • In a race to build the bomb, both sides wanted the Congolese ore.
    — Ngofeen Mputubwele, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The railcars were loaded with iron ore and spilled, South said.
    — Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2023
  • It’s been running since 1903 and mostly transports iron ore from the mines in Kiruna to Narvik—and then to the world.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Much of that ore will come from Pinyon Plain Mine in Arizona.
    — The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2024
  • In them, Andrea's dress can be seen stained with the iron ore carried in the open-top rail wagons.
    — Yasmeen E. Awaja, CNN, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The Beckers shipped ore and limestone to Pittsburgh steel mills.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 22 Jan. 2022
  • It is found in platinum ores but is one-tenth as abundant as the platinum in those ores.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2023
  • In April, 1940, the eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, a source of the iron ore needed for Hitler's war machine.
    — Travis Bean, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • To keep pits and mine shafts dry, and also to process ore, Barrick pulls huge volumes of water out of the ground.
    — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Return to top Are there new ideas in processing of rare earth ore?
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The waste is what's left after the copper ore is extracted.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2022
  • But Indonesia - and the world - is running out of saprolite ore.
    — Rebecca Tan, Dera Menra Sijabat and Joshua Irwandi, Anchorage Daily News, 12 May 2023
  • But Indonesia — and the world — is running out of saprolite ore.
    — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
  • That base lies close to Kiruna, Sweden's northernmost city and home to the largest underground iron ore mine in the world.
    — Star Tribune, 23 May 2021
  • That worldview is clashing with plans to open an iron ore mine outside Jokkmokk.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
  • In the intervening decades, most of the best-quality ore there, and indeed around the globe, has been churned through.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • China’s appetite for iron ore and coal has made Australia wealthy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Iron ore is part of the steel-making process and is not a hazardous material.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In Nunavut, four mines currently extract iron ore and gold.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The mine has a long history: in ancient times, the Romans used it to extract silver and zinc ores.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Rare-earth ore deposits are available in many places, not just China.
    — Time, 20 July 2023
  • Black miners hauling earth and stone to sort piles of radioactive ore by hand.
    — Ngofeen Mputubwele, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2023
  • It’s also known for its wealth of natural resources, such as iron ore, coal, and gas.
    — Michelle Toh, CNN, 23 Nov. 2022
  • That work, Bisyak said, followed the efforts of a mining syndicate that had found zinc ore here, but no gold.
    — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Shipments within the four Great Lakes from Superior to Erie such as iron ore and coal can still go through.
    — Steve Karnowski, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
  • By the early 1880s, miners had exhausted the site’s ore, and the bustling compound began to decline.
    — Erika Mailman, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2022
  • There, miners drill holes, pack them with explosives, and blast open the rock to extract dense rare-earth oxide ore.
    — Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Also new is a 10-acre park designed around the stone basins once used to wash ocher ore brought from the neighboring village of Roussillon.
    — Siobhan Reid, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2024
  • The biggest declines were for imports of oil, natural gas and iron ore, partly due to declines in prices, but also weak demand.
    — Yuri Kageyama, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2024

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