Sentence examples for built on shore from inspiring English sources
This type of breakwater can be conveniently constructed through the use of prefabricated concrete caissons, built on shore and floated out, sunk into position on the prepared bed, and filled with either concrete or, less frequently, simple rubble or rock filling.
Some antebellum mansions survive and a 23-floor high-end condominium has been built on Shore Boulevard, but Astoria is mostly a hodgepodge of six-family apartment houses and two- and three-family row houses, built after the bridges, tunnels and elevated trains of the 20th century put Astoria within easy commute of Manhattan.
After the rig explosion, BP took two weeks to build one on shore and three days to ship it out to sea before it was lowered over the gushing pipe on May 7. It did not work.
A new nuclear plant would most likely be built on the shore of one of the Great Lakes, where Ontario's three existing nuclear plants are.
The major Democratic candidates are, by and large, proposing to build on this mixed system, shoring up the employer-based segment while expanding public programs for those who fall between the cracks.
Our destination was La Sultana, a sand-coloured palace built on the shore of a lagoon, at the end of a winding sandy road.
Built on the shore of an inlet of Puget Sound, it looks as old as Egypt and as new as a moon base.
Lord Nelson's favourite ship the HMS Agamemnon was built on the shore and the skills that helped defeat Napoleon can be seen today.
A house built on the shore between the Selinous and Kerynites Rivers in the 1890's is now about 1,000 feet from the sea.
