Sentence examples for pagoda workers from inspiring English sources

Heading south, Abramson passed the landmarked Strecker Laboratory (now an M.T.A. electrical substation) and the buffeted ruins of the old Smallpox Hospital, arriving, finally, at a mound of rubble, where, instead of a peace pagoda, workers were laying the foundation for an F.D.R. memorial designed by Louis Kahn.

Housed in temporary dormitories, they live in the shadows of this duplitecture, a haunting reminder that the historic structure and temples Suzhou is actively preserving were often built using enslaved labour: after the completion of the iconic Tiger Hill pagoda during the Northern Song Dynasty (959-961AD), its 1,000 workers were put to death.

Ten years ago the only Asian faces you might have seen were in Chinatown — there is one in Havana, Barrio Chino, several square blocks of ostensibly Chinese restaurants and faded signs with lanterns and pagodas on them, a neighborhood left behind by thousands of Chinese agricultural workers who arrived in the 19th century, and where very occasionally you might still see Asian features.

Pagoda trees?

Many pagoda also.

one pillar pagoda.

Pagoda from Armani/Casa, $135.

The Thai-influenced Theindawgyi pagoda is there.

But why build a Chinese pagoda?

The abbot received us in his pagoda.

Chinatown's booths had pagoda roofs.