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

"The Slag Brothers would have been Wacky Races champions under the Grand Prix rules of the time," he reveals.

From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2013

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