Sentence examples for built from the shore from inspiring English sources

Yet it has often been found justifiable on economic or strategic grounds to construct a complete harbour on a relatively unsheltered coastline by enclosing an area with breakwaters built from the shore, with openings of minimum width for entry and exit of ships.

Despite that, however, high beat low, and a series of 15 soaring arches was built from shore to shore, with a pedestrian walkway on top, 1,450 feet long, with a clearance of 114 feet over the river.

Since 1965, Faustino Barrientos has lived alone on the shores the lake, in a house built from the remains of a shipwrecked fishing vessel.

Since 1965, Faustino Barrientos has lived alone on the shores the lake, in a house built from the remains of a shipwrecked fishing vessel.

Since 1965, Faustino Barrientos has lived alone on the shores of Chile's Lake O'Higgins, in a house built from the remains of a shipwrecked fishing vessel.

Built from the ground up.

There were some 50 or 60 small, square houses built along the shore, each a few metres from its neighbour.

A house built on the shore between the Selinous and Kerynites Rivers in the 1890's is now about 1,000 feet from the sea.

A lighthouse, built on the shore of Lake Erie in 1875, now houses a museum.

Before the American settlement of the Chicago area, the lake shoreline fluctuated from year to year as storm waves eroded parts of the shore and built up the shore elsewhere.

It was built further inland from the shore, and was about 10 metres tall.