Sentence examples for excavated pit from inspiring English sources

The creatures are bronze, the men terracotta, and they come from the most recently excavated pit at Xi'an.

"Prisoners were bound with cable and made to kneel at the edge of a previously excavated pit that they were forced to look into before being blindfolded and shot," the indictment reads.

The plan by Studio Daniel Libeskind, for example, envisions the bathtub walls as an integral part of the memorial, and proposes keeping the excavated pit nearly empty of new structures.

Last week Mr. Kelso, the chief archaeologist at the site, hopped into the excavated pit topped with sandbags and pointed to where Pocahontas would have stood at the altar rail.

Three others sit under the north tower footprint: an emergency exit stairwell to serve the temporary PATH terminal, a crash barrier for one of the PATH tracks and the construction ramp that extends from ground level into the excavated pit.

Mr. Libeskind spoke of the beauty of the huge concrete slurry walls that hold back the Hudson River and that are an integral part of his idea for the memorial site, 70 feet below ground in the excavated pit.

Each lateral twenty-foot segment of excavation required the insertion of slurry walls and a system of horizontal struts to support them so that the surrounding earth, and therefore the sidewalks and buildings, wouldn't collapse into the excavated pits.

Drywells are gravity-fed, excavated pits with perforated casings used to facilitate stormwater infiltration and groundwater recharge in areas where drainage and diversion of storm flows is problematic.

Juxtaposed hearths, palaeofloors with habitation debris, postholes, excavated pits, and animal and plant remains, including abundant Canarium nutshells, reflect intensive habitation of the rockshelter in times of monsoon intensification and biome reorganisation after ca. 16,000 cal BP.

These cells took on the morphology of osteoclasts, expressed mRNA for osteoclast-related genes and excavated pits on bone wafers.

Osteoclastogenesis and the number of osteoclasts were followed by tartrate resistant acid phosphatase (TRACP) staining and resorption was evaluated by measuring the area of excavated pits.