salt mines
Example Sentences
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Carpenter toiled for years in the Disney-pop salt mines before breaking out in 2022 with the comparatively frisky “Emails I Can’t Send.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2024
Surrounded by sunflower fields and salt mines, Bakhmut was long known for a sparkling-wine plant where millions of bottles aged underground in gypsum caves.
From New York Times • May 25, 2023
Two weeks earlier, Prigozhin posted a photo of him and his fighters in what he said was one of Soledar's salt mines.
From Reuters • May 20, 2023
They fought battles to maintain possession of the salt mines, she learned—but ate almost no meat.
From Salon • Feb. 23, 2023
“I would have to go to work in the salt mines this time.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
