Sentence examples for plain built from inspiring English sources

Between the Yangtze and the ancient channel of the Huai is what Chinese geographers call the Yangtze (Jiang -Huai plain, built by the alluvium of the two rivers.

North of the old channel of the Huai is the Xuzhou-Huai plain, built of the alluvium of the Huai and Huang rivers and standing about 30 to 150 feet (9 to 45 metres) above sea level.

Excitement at Oxford Plains builds in early summer for what's known simply as the 250, a 250-lap race in the Late Model series that has been run in some form for 35 years.

Archaeologists think the famous ring of stones on Salisbury Plain was built to celebrate not sunrise but sunset, and for the winter solstice, the turning point of the year on 20 December, when the long nights start to shorten.

Plant workers gave various reasons for this: The Mexicans are too small; they don't like blood; they don't like heavy lifting; or just plain "We built this country and we ain't going to hand them everything," as one black man put it.

It is a small plain building built in sandstone with a bell turret.

It is flat, situated on a low-lying coastal plain, and built on soil that doesn't drain well.

As William N. Richardson, the site administrator for the Joseph Priestley House in the 1990s, notes, Priestley's American home did not resemble his "high-style Georgian town house" that was destroyed in Birmingham; rather, it was "plain" and built in the "American vernacular".

The Great Plains were built by successive layers of poorly cemented sand, silt, and gravel debris laid down by parallel east-flowing streams from the Rocky Mountains.

Swift snow-fed rivers drain from the hills, although only in the east of the South Island have extensive alluvial plains been built up.

At the time it undertook the urban renewal project, White Plains also built its first major enclosed mall, the 889,000-square-foot Galleria.