Sentence examples for coral blocks from inspiring English sources

Donkeys are used to carry bags, deliver goods and transport quarried coral blocks.

The houses stood on platforms of coral blocks, onto which faces were sometimes carved.

I discover the charming Swahili architecture of tightly packed townhouses made of coral blocks with balconies, courtyards and roof terraces designed to catch the cooling breezes.

Apparently established in the 9th century, it is distinguished for its seawalls of coral blocks, each of which weighs up to a ton.

It's undeniably impressive that one man created this though - 28-years of allegedly single-handed labour, using improvised tools and manoeuvring some coral blocks that could weight up to 23 tons.

The church still stands, not far from the state capitol in the center of Honolulu, a copy in coral blocks, hand-hewn from local reefs, of a village Congregational church in New England, with a broad central aisle, pews for 1,500 and a fine old wall clock from Boston.

It was placed in a circular side groove of the coral block.

Newly formed fibrous tissues and vasculature extended over the surfaces and invaded the interspaces of entire coral block.

U-Th age distribution of all dated coral rubble samples, combined with previously published storm-transported coral block data from the same region, revealed at least six relatively stormy periods in the past 500 years in the Frankland Islands region: 1570 1590, 1760 1780, 1800 1830, 1860 1880, 1940 1960, 1980 2010 CE.

Born in the old part of town, where the coral block houses lean drunkenly toward the sea, Mr. Taatey had watched in despair as rival militias from clans much bigger than his own leveled Mogadishu after the government collapsed in 1991.

A muezzin wailed from the whitewashed coral-block mosque on Male.