How to Use strip mine in a Sentence

strip mine

noun
Definition of strip minenext
  • The coal continues to come out of the ground today, not from underground mines but from a long black streak of strip mine in the second ridge, just outside town.
    — Richard Conniff, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Both worked at the same active strip mine in western Jefferson County.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 26 Nov. 2021
  • These are American landscapes where drill rigs and strip mines simply don’t belong.
    — Matt Lee-Ashley, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The land includes areas that had formerly been strip mined for lignite coal and then reclaimed, the lakes that have formed on top of those areas, and a 1,000 acre industrial site.
    — Rye Druzin, San Antonio Express-News, 23 May 2018
  • Money said both victims worked at the Blue Creek Road location as security guards at an active strip mine.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The order is just the latest and certainly not the last development in what is shaping up to be a long and contentious fight over a strip mine in an area valued for recreation, wildlife and its water.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Aug. 2022
  • What was once a forest brimming with diverse life, before becoming a denuded strip mine and then a weedy rubble pile, would be a forest again.
    — Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Recovered from the mountain area Letšeng strip mine in January, the stone is believed to be the fifth-largest gem-quality diamond ever recovered.
    — Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The 80-year-old security guard gunned down at work at a western Jefferson County strip mine is being remembered as a man a faith, wisdom and a great love for his large family.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 29 Nov. 2021
  • The giant facility is part of an industrial park that was built above a reclaimed strip mine dating back to when this region was a major coal producer.
    — Michael Corkery, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022
  • Flight 93 went down on the barren site of an old strip mine, where generations of laborers had extracted bituminous coal.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
  • On first blush, crafting almost commands the player to see the island as a mere strip mine—not to mention neighboring islands visited only for resource extraction and then forgotten forever.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Cuccinelli describes with outrage the economic conditions in southwestern Virginia, where many mountaintop strip mines have closed.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2018
  • While upholding parts of the BLM’s analysis, Barlow faulted the agency for touting the strip mine’s economic impact without also examining what carbon pollution is doing to global climate systems.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'strip mine.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: