Sentence examples for blocks were raised on from inspiring English sources

"They work on the pyramids, and I tried to show a current theory -- that the blocks were raised on huge ramps of sand".

The building's principal block was raised one story above the ground on pilotis (heavy reinforced-concrete columns); floors were cantilevered to permit long strip windows; and space was molded plastically and made to flow horizontally, vertically, and diagonally until, on the topmost terrace, the whole composition ended in a cadenza of rounded, terminating spaces.

While it might seem obvious, one of the best ways of distinguishing relief from intaglio printing is in examining the black marks as closely as possible and trying to decide whether it looks like they were raised, or the white marks were raised on the original block.

You were raised on a farm.

All females were raised on pasture.

Flies were raised on standard dextrose media.

It looks on to a little market square, where cast-iron verandahs face off against a creamy rendered terrace, watched over by a neoclassical office block that is raised on an arcaded plinth.

In addition to conducting, Mr. McGegan played the recitative accompaniments on a fortepiano that had been raised on blocks so that he could do both tasks standing up.

The piano in his Waldorf-Astoria apartment was raised on wooden blocks so that he could sit at the keyboard in a wheelchair with the plaster casts shoved underneath.

He was raised on Broome Street a few blocks from the gallery at 457 West Broadway, where the painting was stolen in 1998.

Sister Margaret, who just turned 70, was raised on Crescent Street, a handful of blocks away.