Sentence examples for circular house from inspiring English sources

Nor did the circular House hearing room resemble anyone's idea of a circus tent; it was packed but quiet, scattered with a few innocuous protesters.

Incredible, not only to see the characteristic, thatched, witches'-hat shaped roofs on the Dogon pepperpot-like granaries but also each village's sole circular house, set aside for menstruating women.

Built over several years beginning in 1973, the circular house coils around itself, with rooms and railing-less balconies that Ms. Findlay refers to as "go-go platforms" constituting 12 levels.

While excavating at the site of Upward Sun River, near the Tanama River in central Alaska, archaeologist Ben Potter of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and his colleagues discovered the outlines of the foundation of a circular house, including a scattering of stone tools and animal bones on the floor and traces of posts that may have held up the walls and roof.

She had previously tried to interest her husband in other houses, including a Formby lighthouse, a windmill in St. Helens and a circular house in Southport, which John disliked and rejected.

Unfortunately, the public thought the same when the architect tried to flog them his circular houses.

Roundhouses: Circular houses, with a frame of wooden posts covered by wattle-and-daub or cordwood panels finished with cob.

In the wet season they live in permanent village settlements above flood level and cultivate crops and herd cattle in the vicinity of their well-built, circular houses.