Sentence examples for built of balsa from inspiring English sources

His books are built of balsa wood, but they are beautifully constructed all the same.

Many of Martin's prototypes — built of balsa wood — are literally out of the box, in that he puts the structural ribs on the outside of the fiddle body to ease his ability to make adjustments.

In 1947, the Norwegian adventurer and scientist built a raft of balsa wood and other materials and set sail from Peru to the islands of French Polynesia.

Four glass doors open to the gardens surrounding the house, and before breaking ground, Mr. Fry built a balsa wood model from the architect's plans to ensure the quality of the views.

As Mr. Wood travels over the routes of the conquistadors from Spain to North America he will climb the Andes with a pack of Ilamas, attend a Quoyllur Riti mountain festival, journey down the Coca River in a raft he built from balsa wood (above left).

Built from balsa wood, the 3.5 feet-long Thunderbird 2 was both Anderson's and Meddings' favourite of all the filming models; nevertheless, Meddings considered it "less glamorous" than Thunderbird 1, which he believed was "upstaged" whenever the two vehicles appeared in the same shot.

The other Pod Vehicles were designed on an episode-by-episode basis and built from balsa wood, Jelutong wood or fibreglass.

When Will was ten, he built a balsa-wood replica of the flight deck on the Enterprise, which won an award at a Star Trek convention.

When Mr. Pulver was a boy in Wayne, Pa., he built model houses out of balsa wood and furnished them; when he was older he considered becoming an architect.

Figure 1 Students built balsa wood houses on a pre-constructed base to test in a wind tunnel.

At its conclusion, students were given the following instructions and design parameters for the subsequent hands-on activity: in groups of 4 to 5, they were asked to consider how to build a house out of balsa wood pieces and masking tape that could withstand 150 mph winds.