Sentence examples for buttresses with from inspiring English sources

The span was lifted above the buttresses with enormous hydraulic jacks, painstakingly lowered into place and welded fast.

You'll see huge walls or buttresses with narrow joints so loosely joined that they seem ready to topple.

The builders combined round and pointed arches, conical roofs, stepped gables, a needlelike spire, narrow dormers and stout stone buttresses with dazzling success.

The tower's Venetian Gothic styling and imposing height recall the Venice Campanile in St. Mark's Square, incorporating features like diagonal brick buttresses with pointed headstones, stone lintels and giant arcaded framing.

In the 14th century Jean Ravy, continuing the work of Pierre de Chelles, enlarged the gallery windows of the chevet, decorating them with gables, and put up fantastic flying buttresses with a single span of 15 m.

The tower was given substantial diagonal buttresses with sandstone quoins.

But first he has to be buttressed with practical help.

Firm political convictions buttressed with smart noise drive this turbocharged double bill.

Buttressed with a certain kind of evidence, this is a beguiling story.

A declaration that Watteau "practically invented the bohemian imagination" is nowhere buttressed with evidence.

This return to the old "we were all guilty" line was buttressed with a wealth of archival evidence.