mines
Speech parts
1. mines - Noun
2. mines - Verb
3. mines - Pronoun
4. mines - Determiner
Meaning
mines
plural of mine
mines
third-person singular simple present indicative of mine
mines
(nonstandard, proscribed, informal) Alternative form of mine (“belonging to me”)
mīnes
masculine/neuter genitive singular of mīn
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Examples
Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. The Kitchen God's Wife.
Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.
Copious springs are found where there are mines of gold, silver, iron, copper, lead, and the like, but they are very harmful.
Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.
What thousands and millions of recollections there must be in us! And every now and then one of them becomes known to us; and it shows us what spiritual depths are growing in us, what mines of memory.
Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.