Sentence examples for broken buildings from inspiring English sources

Row after row of shattered and broken buildings line the streets in this town 20 miles from Kathmandu.

In Carrabelle, on the coast, even two National Guard trucks had to turn around when they came upon a hurricane-strewn barricade of fallen trees and broken buildings.

And then I go across the Turkish border to Tel Abyad, in northeastern Syria, and I see broken buildings, electricity lines on the ground, half-finished homes and a gaping hole in a grain storage tower, and I think: Not only are they behind, but this war is still destroying what little they have left.

The wave's aftereffects – broken buildings, torn fishing nets, scarred boats and scraps of clothing – now lie alongside and among the historic remains from before.

Many non-Muslim women were enslaved, while many others jumped in the river to escape capture". The streets were littered with signs of mayhem - broken buildings, broken shop furniture, the ashes of burnt goods and dead bodies, including those of tribal fighters, state soldiers and local men and women.

I was born in 1943, so I grew up after the second world war, with the sights and sounds of what that war left behind, both in terms of broken buildings and broken families and broken society and a lot of unhappiness – there was a lot of grief when I was growing up, a lot of people were missing.

Peeking into a once-grand entryway, now draped in poverty, I saw masses of creative wiring creating a confused black web above broken building material coated with grime.

In a place where land is at a premium, unscrupulous builders often break building laws to add additional floors to existing structures, built high with little space between each house.

They both bought properties in record-breaking buildings designed by the famed architect Robert A.M. Stern.

Firstly, socioeconomic variables and land use variables were broken into building gross floor area (GFA), and secondly the number of buildings and activities in each zone was measured.

Aspiring executives spent much of the time explaining all the basic business tenets the Jakes had broken in building Threadless.