Sentence examples for raised ground from inspiring English sources

The town contained a citadel on raised ground (acropolis) and a marketplace (agora).

My flat is on the raised ground floor, and the area below makes the windows difficult to access.

Mr. Bell, the lodge's secretary, stands beside the rubble on its raised ground, his arms crossed, his eyes scanning the ruined horizon.

I stood outside and admired the long sash windows on the raised ground floor and the two olive trees, wistfully aspiring to the Mediterranean.

In antiquity, as now, the most favoured location of settlements was on slightly raised ground near the riverbank, where transport and water were easily available and flooding was unlikely.

With the chapel, which occupies raised ground in an isolated Wiltshire village and was operating until 2004, Tuckey had to deal with the demands of changing the building's use.

The water that flooded the raised ground-floor apartments at St Bernard has long since subsided.

A discussion with a representative from NIB reveals that majority of the community do not move to higher grounds though some have lands at raised grounds.

"Offroad" mode raises ground clearance nearly two and a half inches.

The dry zone consists of medieval backfill intended to raise ground that was too wet.

The RCP uses a coordinated approach in its outer-dike area that includes spatial planning to raise ground elevations, dike reinforcements, and other design and retrofit measures, including rewiring lower floors of homes to make them more flood-resistant.