Example Sentences

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Even bottle glass was valuable for shaping arrowheads.

From National Geographic • Aug. 7, 2015

"We found bottle glass -- possibly from wine or spirit bottles -- copper nails, tent canvas, twine, rope ... we found some pieces of clay tobacco smoking pipes," said Jonathan Moore of Parks Canada.

From Scientific American • Sep. 2, 2011

Connoisseurs of Goff will also miss the grace notes of his other buildings: no orange carpet on the roof, no replicas of Zen sand gardens done in furnace slag and fused bottle glass.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two of its most important divisions are bottle glass and flat glass.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were circles of charcoal, tire tracks off side roads and, since the men came back from the war, broken bottle glass all over the reservation.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko