Coal in a sentence as a noun

There are six hundred coal plants, so that's about 50 deaths per plant.

That may sound bad, but pollution from coal kills around 30,000 people each year just in the US.

Nuclear power may have its own set of challenges, but coming from the baseline of coal it's hard to do worse.

Of course, coal probably isn't cheaper, but no one cares about it's massive externalized costs.

Demand for electricity isn't going to go down, so we end up burning coal, and coal plants are much worse than nuclear.

You've drank milk and eaten meat contaminated by poisonous chemicals from coal power plants for your whole life.

Not a single person has died yet from the Fukushima disaster, yet millions of people have died from ailments caused by coal power plants.

I am glad something is being replaced by solar, but it is extremely aggravating that coal isn't getting the same treatment as nuclear.

Coal in a sentence as a verb

[1] They did it because ordinary Pennsylvanians,[2] treat attacks on the coal industry as an attack on their livelihoods and their way of life.

If you want to shut down heavily-polluting and destructive coal power in this country, you have to fight not just the corporations, but all of the people for whom coal is a way of life.

So a coal power station with high base-load capacity will place low bids for the majority of its capacity, to ensure that it gets picked first when demand is being met.

The only way to successfully switch to renewable energy is by making renewable energy cheaper than coal or nuclear.

"The engineer replied, "Using a four-bit microcontroller, I would write a simple program that reads the darkness knob and quantizes its position to one of 16 shades of darkness, from snow white to coal black.

When Obama and Romney got on stage during the last debate to see who could get the coal industry's dick the deepest down their throat, they didn't do it because of the money the coal industry donated to their campaigns.

If anyone wants to believe that pesticides are not the cause, it's easy to view the available data and say, "see, that's not proof".In my opinion, one day we'll look back and figure out that bees and bats were our canaries in the coal mine.

Coal definitions

noun

fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period

noun

a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering

See also: ember

verb

burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"

See also: char

verb

supply with coal

verb

take in coal; "The big ship coaled"