Sentence examples for built on piles from inspiring English sources

Their dwellings were of wood, built on piles, and their sacred buildings were erected on flat-topped mounds.

Talk story about the Raunt, a village consisting of ramshackle houses built on piles sunk in the tideswept Jamaica Bay.

Houses in some parts of Pontianak are built on piles to avoid the regular flooding of the river; the hinterland is tropical forest and swampland.

The cathedral was built on piles in the alluvium of the Itchen valley floor and required extensive restoration in the 20th century, including underpinning its insecure foundations.

Houses are built on piles, the chief's house being particularly large with a high roof and massive carved pillars and beams.

The New Yorker, November 9, 1946 P. 23 Talk story about the Raunt, a village consisting of ramshackle houses built on piles sunk in the tideswept Jamaica Bay.

Each family group is virtually autonomous and inhabits a longhouse built on piling.

Other houses may have been built on wooden piles that have since disappeared.

Buyers in Amsterdam should be aware that the city is several feet below sea level, and many older homes are built on wooden piles, brokers said.

He was, for once, telling the truth: Trump's business career was built on borrowing piles of money that he then spent with careless abandon.

Like Venice, too, Tenochtitlan was built on wooden piles driven deep below water, and like Venice again, it became a city of canals, wondrous buildings, elaborate festivals, imperial ambition and mystery.