Sentence examples for built piles from inspiring English sources

They have parked trucks across the street and built piles of rubble and dirt.

Pain took all that brush, chopped it up very fine (he created several prototype chippers over the years), built piles of them, in which he buried pipes and tanks of water.

Throughout Madagascar, houses are rectangular with a gabled roof as in Kalimantan, central pillars are widespread, and in all but a handful of regions, traditional homes are built on piles in a manner handed down from generation to generation, regardless of whether the feature is suited to local conditions.

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.

It is, the president declared, nothing short of a "new foundation", designed to curb "risks built on piles of sand".Eye-catching though the 88-page "white paper" is, it is not as bold as it might have been.

By James Munves, A. E. Shea, and Brendan Gill 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.