Sentence examples for concrete piles from inspiring English sources

Concrete piles driven into the living rock are dripping caryatids.

The foundations were massive: we had to put in concrete piles, 20 metres deep.

The new segment veers out over the rocky shoreline on concrete piles, avoiding a warehouse near the water.

On such land, building is possible only on "rafts," or after concrete piles, sometimes as long as 65 feet (20 metres), have been driven into the silt layer.

Others are more complicated, like relocating critical equipment like boilers above ground level or encasing them in watertight enclosures and rebuilding houses on concrete piles.

In addition, climate change has increased precipitation, adding more moisture to the soil that freezes and expands, gradually crumbling the concrete piles.

A teenage boy sat on a concrete piling and sobbed so violently his body shook.

Home-town pride centers on the ballpark, a steep, elegant gray concrete pile that forms part of the new downtown complex being built around the celebrated Saarinen archway.

The court building, a concrete pile of 20th-century blandness, would never be mistaken for some graceful old palace of justice.

I was 7 years old when my father took his own life, crashing our light-blue Buick into the concrete piling of a highway bridge between Ann Arbor and Detroit.

Miami-Dade County officials said the pipe, which carries waste from Miami Beach to a nearby treatment plant, split when a concrete piling was driven through it.