Sentence examples for built of dune from inspiring English sources

A typical section of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt, which was completed in 1970, shows an embankment 111 metres (365 feet) high built of dune sand and rockfill on a very permeable foundation of deep alluvium.

And although it is operated as a tourist attraction, this is no ersatz Sahara built of trucked-in sand and designer dunes.

"We went onto people's property and built a dune to protect their home," Oldham explained.

The town had built a dune more than 20 feet high, adopting what he called "an education program" to explain the advantages of second-floor living rooms to residents whose views were blocked.

During the Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps built an artificial dune that survives today along much of the length of the Banks, blocking the overwash of sand.

Royal Troon, a course built among the dunes of Ayrshire's coast and one of the sport's most prestigious venues, is to host the 145th Open championship – the UK's highest profile golfing tournament – in two weeks for the ninth time.

This area is built on a dune close to the beach and has a total population of 1,500 persons.

Built among dunes on an island off the east coast of Abu Dhabi, the track had many questions swirling around it before the Gulf state's inaugural Grand Prix in 2009.

"If people don't want houses built on the dunes of Truro, then the way to outlaw that is to change the zoning bylaws".

But once the population and the value of the homes built at Dakota Dunes (and countless other projects) achieve certain thresholds, there is little to do but to keep investing in flood control structures to protect them.

In Surf City, for example, the corps had built dunes along all but two blocks of oceanfront, where six homeowners would not grant easements.