Sentence examples for a cement foundation from inspiring English sources

Beauty usually smokes along a cement foundation below a chain-link fence that buttresses a sports field.

They occupy a snug house with brick walls and floors and a cement foundation — the bricks and cement are products of the smoking, energy-ravenous factories that dot the valley.

The lighthouse was built entirely of wood on a cement foundation, with a cast aluminum capstone, a consumer solar power generator, and glass windows housing a rotating fresnel light.

We believed we were safe, because we had already created a sense of equality in our nation, we had already fought for civil rights, and women's rights, and marriage equality, and perhaps we forgot that each of those rights is not built on a cement foundation.

Our house had an attic and a cellar and a deep well and a solid cement foundation.

All that remains today of the abandoned project are piles of moldy bricks, rusting steel rods and a small team of security guards who have transformed the cement foundation into a parking lot for motorcycles.

A few cement foundations were all we could see of the military's mountain-warfare training center.

It was discovered that a Degussa subsidiary had supplied a product that had already been used in the cement foundation, which prompted discussion of whether to tear out whatever work contains Degussa's material.

The town stands at one end of a 10-mile stretch of road that runs southwest to Santa Rosa through some of California's loveliest countryside, transformed now into stands of torched pines and oaks, abandoned vineyards and the unrecognizable remains of a lifetime's possessions, piled in ashes atop cement foundation after foundation.

"The lighthouse was completely dismantled and almost all the materials were taken with the exception of strewn splintered boards, the cement foundation, unidentifiable plastic garbage, and a small red cooler with half eaten sandwiches in it that was left presumably by the culprits," he says ruefully.

The bottom line is that old cinder block or cement foundation walls will inevitably start leaking over time.