Sentence examples for dwellings like from inspiring English sources

They are turning to larger dwellings like military tents to accommodate their numbers.

The people of Sumba build tall, conical dwellings, like witches' hats, whereas Borneo's Dayaks traditionally live in communal longhouses.

The west side of Palisades, too, has its share of meandering streets and historic dwellings, like one that used to be a general store.

In practice, though, Canyon residents bestow their own addresses on their dwellings, like 2001 Boulevard of the Stars and 212 Fuzzy Frog Ravine.

The mesa was inhabited from 500 to about 1300 AD, but they only built dwellings like this in the last 150 years they were here.

These dwellings, like all the Sicilian homes Maggio visits, are cleaned furiously and proudly by members of a fierce army of Sicilian housewives.

Genzken's exhibition begins with lumps of plaster and model troglodyte dwellings, window-like objects framing emptiness, and a number of sleek, highly crafted things: pointed, aerodynamic-looking forms that thrust this way and that on the floor.

It also has the typical trappings of a college dwelling, like discarded pizza boxes and bathrooms of questionable cleanliness.

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT and his acolytes built several fanciful residences here in the 1940's and 1950's, but Pleasantville has never seen a dwelling like Deana and Bruce Nelkins' modified geodesic dome.

The latter term recalls the 1920s movement for the "minimum dwelling", like Parker Morris an attempt to define what could be expected as a decent amount of space and making it compulsory – it's ironic to see it redefined as "small".

More than three million of our adult children are living with us, have never left, or are coming back, and we are all stuck together in one dwelling, like it or not, possibly for ever.