How to Use mine in a Sentence

mine

1 of 3 adjective
Definition of minenext
Synonyms for minenext
  • Mine bent all the way back; hers was straight as an arrow.
    — Heather Viggiani, Seventeen, 24 Feb. 2016
  • This is their word — right there, in the title of their report — not mine.
    — Daniel J. Pilla, National Review, 29 Sep. 2021
  • What was mine was always mine, even if that wasn’t much.
    — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Make mine pork dumplings draped with a creamy blanket of sesame seeds and lit with chile oil.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Jeff’s family and mine lived across the street from each other.
    — Nancy Ngo, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • The inference is that Shi’s team, a year after the mine workers died, may have taken the virus back to Wuhan.
    — David Quammen, New York Times, 25 July 2023
  • The company struck a deal with the government of Papua New Guinea to mine sulfides off the country’s coast.
    — WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
  • More and more, data centers are cropping up to mine Bitcoin and train AI.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Mine pollution had killed fish in a 17-mile stretch of the Alamosa River and ruined at least a square mile of soil.
    — Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2017
  • Explore the world, mine raw materials and survive the night.
    — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 12 Sep. 2022
  • There are 15 of them and only one of me (but five of them are mine, too, being my daughter and her family).
    — Annie Lane, Anchorage Daily News, 30 July 2023
  • Mine-laying submarines also terrorized the sea in the first half of the 20th century.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 13 Feb. 2017
  • To fund these wars, Congolese leaders sold mine sites to foreigners.
    — Amel Mukhtar, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2024
  • It was made clear that my career trajectory was not mine to own.
    — Kate Wieczorek, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Mine include protein and healthy fats but tend to be a bit higher in carbs, as this is when my body can really use them.
    — Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 7 Apr. 2017
  • Another storyline that feels ripped from the headlines is the U.S. and Russia racing to mine lithium on the moon.
    — Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Since 2003, the EPA has repaired a failing dam, relocated mine waste and cleaned up a factory at the site.
    — Washington Post, 13 May 2017
  • Charged my account $300 and then transferred money to another card that's not mine.
    — Lindsey Murray, Good Housekeeping, 9 May 2017
  • Here's how mine looks, with the understanding that some of these items might happen only once during the whole summer, not once a day.
    — Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2017
  • In Twohy’s screenplay, Kimble eventually learns that the one-armed man worked for the coal mine a decade earlier, and lost his limb in a mine collapse.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2023
  • Riders climb aboard a mine cart and avoid dynamite and a number of other surprises.
    — Amanda Taylor, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Mine workers in Tala Wa Barfak make about $10 a day, relatives said.
    — Mujib Mashal and Fahim Abed, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2017
  • His broken body, along with others, was thrown into a mine shaft in Cuesta Barriga.
    — Pascale Bonnefoy, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • If a single person’s opinion can be decisive, why not mine?
    — David Owen, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2023
  • There are so many versions of The Nutcracker, including others told from the Black point of view, but this one is specifically mine.
    — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 27 Nov. 2020
  • Left behind is the rock and dirt that mine operators shoved into valleys, burying streams.
    — Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Mine were extremely active and curious, but not at all aware of their own safety or limits.
    — Carolyn Hax, Philly.com, 29 May 2017
  • All leavings summon something within us, and this was mine: the will to create an identity entirely of my own.
    — Jason Parham, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The column of tanks becomes most vulnerable, Bayak said, after the shooting starts and drivers panic and try to turn around — by driving onto the mine-laden shoulder of the road.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2023
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mine

2 of 3 noun
  • At one point an explosion and flames to the side of the road, an IED or mine.
    — Ian Pannell, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2023
  • A lot of his people, and mine as well, came from or made the living on the sea.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The mine was deserted, and the miners were gone, for now.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Most of the inhabitants worked for the mine in search of iron ore.
    — Mario Abad, Robb Report, 23 May 2023
  • What was mine was always mine, even if that wasn’t much.
    — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2023
  • But after working in a place that snatches souls… mine is in tact and of the light.
    — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The mine dried out, and the miners and their families dispersed.
    — John Hanc, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The mine was in Yunnan Province, 1,200 miles southwest of Wuhan.
    — David Quammen, New York Times, 25 July 2023
  • In my case, mine was also telling me where I was headed.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
  • One of the mines there, Shinkolobwe, was rich with uranium.
    — Ngofeen Mputubwele, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Nonstick pots and pans that stuck to everything and looked like the inside of a coal mine?
    — Alex Milmeyster, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Bear in mind my grandfather was blown up by the Nazis at sea as a teenager, then spent 40 years in the coal mines.
    — New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The most recent country to join the movement was Panama, where the new law was used to shut down one of the largest copper mines in the world.
    — Michael Lee, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Rumors spread, most in his favor, and the narrative was no longer mine.
    — Hannah V. Sawyerr, Essence, 2 Aug. 2023
  • That’s largely due to the preservative properties of salt, which is abundant in the mine.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The viewer floats over slums, a strip mine, an artisanal sulfur mine.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Agnieszka’s reason for making her movie was the same as mine.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The impressive find is the fourth diamond recovered from the mine’s South Lobe since 2015.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Fesenko pointed to a hole where one of the animals had triggered a mine.
    — Alice Martins, Washington Post, 28 May 2023
  • Her grandparents came for the mines, which supported livelihoods in town until the last one closed in 1991.
    — Jonathan Weisman Benjamin Rasmussen, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Kweli had quickly forgotten the brief blowups, both mine and Matilda’s.
    — Anja Mutic, Travel + Leisure, 22 Sep. 2023
  • When Natalia decided to work in the mine, her 19-year-old son had already worked in a neighbouring mine for a year.
    — Reuters, Fortune Europe, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Shipping tends to be a lot more difficult and expensive when the seas are teeming with mines.
    — John Gustavsson, National Review, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The mine’s enormous underground church, carved in the early 20th century, is still used for Mass.
    — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2023
  • But the steel mills and coal mines failed to roar back to their glory days, and the internal-combustion engine is unlikely to as well.
    — Anjali Huynh, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Still more works of art had been hidden in monasteries, castles, caves and salt mines to protect them from Nazi theft or wartime bombs.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
  • At least one ship was damaged by a floating mine of unknown origin off the coast of Romania late last year.
    — Tim Lister and Victoria Butenko, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
  • But it had been discovered in a Mozambican mine, which raised eyebrows among the cognoscenti.
    — Jill Newman, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The company suggests a torch will burn for five hours, yet at hour five mine was still going and even had about a third of a canister of fuel left.
    — Leslie Yazel, wsj.com, 17 Oct. 2023
  • And this is certainly not the first mystery story in which corporate interests — the local mine — are set against the needs of the people.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2024
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mine

3 of 3 verb
  • Local people were hired to mine the gold.
  • The enemy had mined the harbor.
  • The area was soon filled with prospectors who were mining for gold.
  • Prospectors mined the region for diamonds.
  • As many teams brushed away games and moved on to the next, Shildt mined gold from the past.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The footage could be mined by both Dokumalia and the scientists.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Only a comedic mind like John Mulaney’s could mine gold from one of the lowest points of his life.
    — William Earl, Variety, 27 Nov. 2023
  • In addition to exploring the moon, NASA hopes to mine the area by 2032.
    — Devika Rao, theweek, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The trouble won’t come when the last of Earth’s phosphorus-​rich rock reserves have been mined, milled and spilled into our waters.
    — Dan Egan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The new High Street will not be a carbon copy of the old, but the old restaurant will be mined for inspiration.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Both the 23andMe and the GSK team felt like there was so much in there, any one group can’t possibly mine everything.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Share [Findings] Sugar ants will mine dried urine from sand.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Three-quarters of the world’s boron reserves are in Turkey, while the rest is mined from the town of Boron, California.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2023
  • In late May, Aleksandr was sent on a mission to mine a riverbank.
    — Ekaterina Bodyagina, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The diamond is believed to have been mined in India in the 13th century.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 4 May 2023
  • But who was mining the lapis lazuli in Afghanistan and under what conditions?
    — Teju Cole, New York Times, 25 May 2023
  • Like the stone, Peridot is sleek and captivating with its modern design, and nods to Vietnam, the place where the gem is mined.
    — Detroit Free Press, 6 Mar. 2024
  • In the film, Richie shares with Patrick how difficult things were with his father, something that would have been mined more in a full season.
    — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 20 June 2023
  • Renowned as the opal capital of the world, Australia's national gemstone has been mined here for more than 100 years.
    — Keira Alexander, Travel + Leisure, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Some flows to offshore deposits just past the surf zone, which can be mined for replenishment projects.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Wakely first struck a deal with Universal Music Group in 2018 to mine its library for projects.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024
  • That cuts down e-waste and potentially even the need to mine for as much raw material.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Plans were drawn up to mine the Eiffel Tower with explosives.
    — Melissa Locker, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
  • Podcast hosts talk about it; the details get mined for social media content.
    — Adam Carlson, ABC News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Other people’s drama is the foundation of the internet, and it could be mined to a greater extent on late night, frankly.
    — Vulture, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Credit that to Bradley, who has mined the type of mental toughness to finally match the physical kind.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The Russians mined the area before leaving, according to Kyiv.
    — Justin Ling, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Using them again helps build more circular economies and reduces the demand for mining them.
    — The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
  • He's never been one to shy away from mining his own background for a good story, and now the time has come to gather many of those stories into one.
    — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2024
  • These models are trained on huge datasets of text, much of it scraped from the internet, which is mined for statistical patterns.
    — James Vincent, The Verge, 14 Mar. 2023

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