How to Use coal in a Sentence

coal

noun
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  • When the coals are red, they are very hot.
  • I toasted one last marshmallow over the coals of the campfire.
  • Our team also checked the state of the coal after grilling.
    — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The filmmakers were able to identify the vessel as the Africa due to the size of the ship and the coal found around the wreck.
    — Sydney Borchers, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • There was a lump of coal waiting for me at the hotel in Montana.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The Red Hot Chili Peppers got a lump of coal in their stocking this week.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2023
  • His go-to in Delhi is grilled over open coals at this stall in the shadow of the Jama Masjid.
    — Alex Bhattacharji, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Like, say, 2-year-old kids, coal fires can be unpredictable and messy to clean.
    — Linda Gassenheimer, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Rub the steak with a little olive oil, season with salt, and place the meat directly on the coals (or grates).
    — Paul Kita, Men's Health, 24 July 2023
  • These weren’t coal mines, but other kinds of mines where dust shouldn’t have led to lung issues.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 July 2023
  • See how the collapse will disrupt the supply of cars, coal and other goods.
    — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Near every fire pit are trash cans designed to hold hot coals.
    — Julia Carmel, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Even the servants’ bathroom and a coal furnace remained in the basement.
    — Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The mining communities were built up around the coal mines.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Even in Poland, which has clung to coal, installations of heat pumps soared by 120% last year.
    — Melissa Eddy, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2023
  • Indeed, none of the legal changes in the past few years are sending children back into coal mines.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2023
  • Most of their targets are limited to oil, gas, and thermal coal.
    — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 15 May 2023
  • Finding basic facts – even the status of the case – is like, well, like finding a body in a Walker County coal mine.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 21 July 2023
  • Yeah also imagine the early 1900s when coal burning and soot were commonplace in the cities.
    — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • That’s one reason why Johnson was one of thousands of people who took to the streets in New York over the past 24 hours to demand an end to oil, coal, and gas.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 18 Sep. 2023
  • In just two years, the country has approved 218 GW of new coal power, enough to supply electricity to the whole of Brazil.
    — Reuters, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Companies drill for oil and gas and dig up coal to be traded, marketed, and sold.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 27 July 2023
  • James Blair, a coal miner in Scotland, collapsed while on duty.
    — Sunita Puri, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The connection to coal ash is suspected, but not confirmed.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024
  • In fact, Ozzie Zehner wrote an article for us way back in the mid-Teens about the— the dirty secret behind your electric car is the coal that fuels it.
    — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Mar. 2024
  • If the world wants to peak and reduce global coal production, this is essential.
    — WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
  • For a charcoal grill: Place meat on the rack of an uncovered grill directly over medium coals.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 May 2023
  • Additionally, there was no way to control the grill’s heat other than to add more coals.
    — Rachel Simon, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
  • But the steel mills and coal mines failed to roar back to their glory days, and the internal-combustion engine is unlikely to as well.
    — Anjali Huynh, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • His father worked at a coal and lumber yard; his mother was a homemaker.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024

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