Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: quarries
IPA transcription: [kw'ɔɹiz]
Usage examples
  • Not far away are the great vaults known as Solomon's Quarries.
  • The mines and quarries of earth have been called on for their richest contributions; and talent and skill have given their all to produce this enduring work of beauty, that tells posterity of the mighty acts of this mighty man.
  • But no! Year in and year out they have been drifting along in a fools' paradise, accumulating stones and queer, indistinguishable cans and things, until they were prepared to become anything, quarries, iron-mines, notion-counters,--anything but gardens.