Sentence examples for built on dirt from inspiring English sources

O.K., our house was built on dirt, but I always thought everything was built on dirt.

"Your whole house is built on dirt," Geronimo said.

I mean, here's the thing: apparently a house shouldn't be built on dirt.

Probably he was about to try again and tell me why a house can't be built on dirt, and anyone who heard him -- a person walking by the house, for instance -- might have learned why that is so.

But right now he was just looking at two people who bought a house with their own money and had just learned it was built on dirt with some newspapers in it, and who were looking at newspapers from 1907 in wonder and amazement.

The associations detected in this study were observed in grow-out broiler houses built on dirt pad foundations placed directly on top of the native soil surface.

Before the current regulations for building on top of landfill, the method was often used to expand the city's footprint, including for Battery Park City, part of which is built on the dirt from the original World Trade Center.

After all, he and his five children live across from a separation plant once operated by a Texaco affiliate, their house built on a mound of dirt that covered a pit where wastewater was dumped.

They concede that a new road, built on what is currently a dirt track being measured by surveyors, would help them get crops to market.

"We built it in 1820 and have owned the dirt it was built on since the Normans… It is my job to hand it on to the next generation" – if they deign to get back in touch.

The 2,400 villagers in Dimaluo are divided among Lisu, Nu and Tibetans, many of whom live in wooden shacks where dirt pits are built on the wood floors so that fires can be lighted for cooking and heat.