slag

Example Sentences

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The Alabama-based aggregates company Vulcan Materials - once known as Birmingham Slag Co. - has no experience at doing either, and would just like to continue mining gravel.

From Washington Times • Apr. 27, 2022

He introduced her to the gallerist Irina Protopopescu, who put her work in an exhibition, “Absent Present,” at Slag Gallery in Chelsea in 2011, a year after she graduated.

From New York Times • May 15, 2020

Slag has become a popular additive because it is a recycled material and enhances the sidewalk’s strength.

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2015

Before she left for California, she appeared in the West End transfer of David Hare's Slag in 1971 and at Greenwich in 1973 with Dave King in Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday.

From The Guardian • May 3, 2010

Slag looks like pieces of porous rock but actually is the cinders left over when iron ore is melted down to make steel.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins