Sentence examples for blocks that lay from inspiring English sources

Giant earth-moving machines lifted chunks of bricks and slabs of concrete today from apartment blocks that lay in ruins.

I fully understood that these boys were lucky, that there were thousands of Sudanese left behind in Kakuma -- and millions of refugees stuck in camps across the globe -- but still I could imagine, painfully, the small indignities and cultural stumbling blocks that lay ahead.

A tilted block that lies between two normal faults dipping in the same direction is a tilted fault block.

Suave, elegant and painterly, these life-size figures are oil-painted aluminum cutouts -- somewhat resembling blown-up linoleum block-prints -- that lay flat against the wall, which cleverly becomes part of them.

Idriss' comments dramatize the many stumbling blocks that still lie in the path of the so-called Geneva 2 talks, now scheduled for Jan . 22in Geneva.

This is indicative of a block in division that lies downstream of FtsZ assembly.

The Trail West Building, so called because of the Western shop on the ground floor, would be preserved, the block's only building that lies within an existing downtown historic district.

In the seven- to nine-block strip of city that lies between two of Brooklyn's largest green open spaces, Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery, and between Prospect Park West to the north and Caton Avenue to the south, the streets of Windsor Terrace are filled mostly with two- and three-story row houses, brick, clapboard, brownstone and limestone (or at least limestone-colored concrete).

Van Tassel Sutphen, who lived from 1861 to 1945, was most at home on the golf course, but as a brother-in-law to the Harper publishing family he found himself toiling in the company's office on lower Broadway — the very same blocks that he'd gleefully lay waste to in "The Doomsman".

Block upon block lay devastated.

Only where the Shiites lie are there cinder blocks that hold most of the markers in place.