Sentence examples for lay cement from inspiring English sources

As bulls heave a cart spilling with sand, builders give free instructions, and men mix and lay cement, Mrs. Chanakira and scores of women act as a conveyer belt, passing bricks down the line.

Lay cement and let dry for a couple of days.

'Successful Italian businessmen come from cement,' says Saviano. 'Before transforming themselves into fashion models, managers, financial sharks and owners of newspapers and yachts, before all this and under all this lies cement.' The English translation, for some baffling reason, castrates the climax to this passage, which in Italian reads: cemento armato - armed cement.

A lone streamer lay on the cement floor, along with a cardboard box filled with moldy peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches neatly stacked in Ziploc bags.

Bags of cement lay within the grounds, and amid the debris were dented 10-foot-high prayer wheels, their Tibetan text covered in dust.

For a wood rather than concrete subfloor, lay down 0.5" cement fiberboard to create an even subfloor.[3].

Our ambitions do not lie in cementing a mid-table place with expensive, short-term quick fixes that will only contribute for a couple of years.

The men lay asphalt and pour cement in Riyadh.

Once, when a risotto took on the consistency of nearly dry cement, I lay down on the floor and refused to get up.

"The first six months, some people would come in and say, 'Where's Pease Library?' " said Rich Scalione, the village electrician, as he carried a spool of electric wire into the gutted basement of Village Hall where jail bars lay flat on the cement floor.

Bags of cement lie stacked among the equipment of tradesmen.