Sentence examples for old materials from inspiring English sources

Using old materials for new buildings isn't a new idea.

We're using old materials in a modern way".

He also salvaged old materials, from lumber and doors to windows and tiles, and has a warehouse full of old materials waiting for users.

Now the old materials are being replaced or supplemented with patterned wrappings applied like wallpaper.

"Builders in fact use old materials like barn siding and antique floors from old buildings that have been reclaimed.

Many artists today prefer Western media like oils or digital art, but Ms. Luo is loyal to the old materials.

"We try to find superior materials and new ways to use old materials," Mr. Missoni said in 1971.

He avoided the trap of repeating himself by finding new materials to use, and new ways of using his old materials.

The renovation, which cost $85,000, was meant to take three months but stretched out to 18, largely because of Mr. Luckock's obsession with old materials.

Recently, though, Dr. Adams, a 58-year-old materials researcher, started a new and somewhat quieter phase of research, studying avalanches in the lab at Montana State University.

Where painting and writing could choose their distance from (or intimacy with) the new mass culture, many of the age-old materials of the theatre had by the 1980s been subsumed by movies and television.