Sentence examples for built of timber from inspiring English sources

The first trusses were built of timber.

Built of timber by prisoners in 1946, its camp buildings are near collapse.

Built of timber and stone, with canvas sails, their purpose was to grind toasted maize into gofio, the Canarian staple.

The entire system also may be built of timber or of concrete framing, with concrete or sheet steel piling used as retaining walls.

A private company built an aqueduct to London from the River Chadwell, some 60 km (38 miles) distant, that utilized more than 200 small bridges built of timber.

Wood was plentiful in northern Europe and cheaper than stone, so houses, even those as grand as Hrothgar's, were built of timber and burned easily and often.

The roof is predominantly built of timbers dating from between 1512 to 1536; the current structure was probably built around 1540, possibly when the building was converted for use as a vicarage.

She was built of green timber, caulked with cotton and leaked like a sieve.

Built of unseasoned timber, Invincible was in poor shape upon her return and was decommissioned.

In Russia, walls were built of horizontal timbers sometimes as much as 3 square feet (about 0.3 square metre) in cross section.

A picture of Flash Williams at the wheel of a Studebaker driving head on at a flaming structure built of substancial timbers and planks to splinter the walls, penetrate the smoke and heat and emerge unscathed, we shudder when we think of what that may do to potential hell-drivers.