Sentence examples for built of rock from inspiring English sources

AT THE heart of Ichiro Ozawa's constituency near Oshu City in north-east Japan stands the huge Isawa dam, built of rock.

In the new report, Michel Mayor of the Geneva Observatory and his colleagues said they had found 45 planets that were only a few times as massive as our beloved blue base, which means that they, like Earth, are probably built of rock.

A few structures, such as breakwaters built of rock, can be studied using miniature versions, but materials such as sand, clay, and grass behave differently in small-scale models than in the real world, van Gent says.

Learn the following terms: "Hinoki-Buro (tubs made of Japanese cypress)","Ishi-Buro" (pools built of rocks) and "Utase-Yu" (reclining under a hot waterfall).

The houses of those who once lived here are half built of stone, half dug into the rock.

The follies here are built of brick and lava rock, as well as ancient Greek and Roman stones and tree trunks — the kind of thing Robinson Crusoe would have constructed if he'd washed up in Taormina.

Traditional buildings of two or three stories are built of local rock.

St. Michael's Anglican Cathedral was built of coral rock, largely from the proceeds of a lottery to replace a building destroyed in a hurricane of 1780.

Chilean police ended the protest, and now the hotel is open for business, with 75 rooms built of volcanic rock and a lobby that resembles a Polynesian canoe.

A built-in sofa encircles much of the white-shag-carpeted space, while an unmistakably phallic canopy built of moss rock protrudes from part of the wall, extending toward the fireplace opening in the large hearth opposite.

You go up the grand wooden entrance steps into a huge vaulted open-plan living area, with leather sofas arranged around a colossal fireplace built of local rock and exposed timbers overhead.