Sentence examples for built of leaves from inspiring English sources

The mole's nest is built of leaves and grasses, and is usually situated several inches to a foot or more below the surface.

There is little information about the breeding of Green-and-gold Tanager, but the nest is built of dried leaves and is placed in an understory tree or shrub, and contains two eggs.

On the front of the building is a quote from Suetonius' Life of Augustus: "He found a city built of brick – left it built of marble".

Its centerpiece is a hulking creation built of debris left by the natural disaster that Mr. calls his "garbage caterpillar"—a symbol of the hope for transformation and regeneration.

People live in homes built of bamboo and sago leaves.

The accoutrements of the Utzons' European life — a sleek Citroën car, a piano built of chrome and Perspex — left a lasting impression on them.

Cobras build nests of leaves and forest debris, carried by kinking their necks, and both sexes guard the eggs.

They build nests of leaves and branches among vegetation, for example in a tree hollow, or under rocks.

The roofs are flat and built of layers of dried date-palm leaves, with palm-wood rafters; corn (maize) and cotton stalks, as well as dung cakes used for fuel, are stored on them.

At night they usually sleep in the trees in nests they build of branches and leaves.

Unlike Frodo Baggins, animals don't aspire to do "great deeds" (although if you realise that the albatross was the first living being to circumnavigate the globe and that ants built boats out of leaves to cross mighty rivers before any human, they certainly can carry them out).