Sentence examples for block homes from inspiring English sources

Protests flared in Complexo do Alemão, the maze of cinder block homes where Eduardo lived.

The fortunate ones have been offered space in rough cinder block homes, on narrow streets that ramble down a slope from the border, with wire demarcations.

On the other there are the native Caymanians, many of whom live in simple single-storey breeze block homes typical of the islands, with chickens and goats running about on scrub-like surrounding land.

Still, in the narrow, muddy streets of Ein Hilweh in Lebanon, Balata on the West Bank and the 57 other camps, where cinder block homes are painted with Palestinian flags and images of rifles, they treasure keys to homes in the Galilee, where they once lived.

A plan was made with partners at the Good Samaritan Hospital and Maranatha Mission in La Romana, DR, and the next summer, 2010, small, cinder block homes started to replace the shacks.

The city — a dust-filled cluster of breeze block homes rising up hillsides stripped of the trees they once had — is a hotbed of activity for factions of several drug cartels in conflict, as well as a particular hotspot for violence against women.

In her three-room concrete block home, Maria Altagracia Matos is housing 30 relatives, including small children.

The locals had named one apartment block home for single men "London".

I carried the block home and found my own answer: it's an Asian Rice Krispies Treat.

"What happened?" she asked passers-by in Spanish on Wednesday afternoon on the block, home mostly to Dominican families.

David Ritchie, chief executive of Bovis Homes, believes that a traditionally built "brick and block" home remains the preference of many British homebuyers.