Sentence examples for extraordinary feat of engineering from inspiring English sources
DUOMO, FLORENCE This represents an extraordinary feat of engineering.
It was at Arromanches, in an extraordinary feat of engineering, that the British transported piecemeal across the Channel an artificial port that they built in seven days.
Even allowing for considerable exaggeration, these theatres were extraordinary feats of engineering.
It's certainly a marvel, but it is not just the extraordinary feats of engineering that hold the attention.
The Mullaperiyar dam, which diverted water from the southern state of Kerala to neighbouring Tamil Nadu, was built in the late 1800s, and was considered at the time to be one of the most extraordinary feats of engineering ever achieved.
It was the cholera epidemic of 1832 that led to the creation of the Croton system, an extraordinary feat of sanitary engineering that gave the city a limitless supply of fresh water.
Traversing a region known for earthquakes, low temperatures, and low atmospheric pressure, the railroad, which cost $4.2 billion to build, is an extraordinary feat of modern engineering — perhaps even, as the former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji has claimed, "an unprecedented project in the history of mankind".
Marshland was drained to open up more space for construction, dividing Potosí into a Spanish and a local district, and creating an intricate system of dykes and drains to fill five artificial lagoons that fed the mills – an extraordinary feat of hydro-engineering that guaranteed a steady supply of silver.
One of the most extraordinary feats of military engineering during the war was the building in 1944 by Allied forces of a supply road from Ledo, India, to the Burma Road at a point where the road was still in Chinese hands.
Her one-woman performance of The Waste Land was an extraordinary feat of psychic ventriloquism.
He then comes very close to pulling off the extraordinary feat of making planetary science readable.
