Sentence examples for rice barn from inspiring English sources
The Ma'randing dance precedes a procession in which the deceased is carried from a rice barn to the rante, the site of the funeral ceremony.
At Broughton Island, orders were given to transfer slaves away from a rice barn upon indications of a storm's arrival; however, efforts to do so were not undertaken promptly, and more than seventy slaves drowned, leading the plantation owner to sell the property following financial losses.
Manta Dive lets you do this in relative luxury, with its coconut wood cabanas, fashioned after traditional lumbung rice barns and set behind the resort's restaurant.
Two hours ride from town (beat the gridlock by checking the train schedules), its bungalows are made of recycled teak, while salvaged leuit (traditional Sundanese rice barns) have been converted into shared accommodations.
Gili Nanggu has no regular inhabitants, just one Indonesian-owned resort, with 17 cold-water cottages on a pretty beach and a ramshackle turtle sanctuary – the recently refurbished sea-view cottages, styled like traditional rice barns, are the best.
Here, private villas are made from reconstructed rice barns and overlook working rice paddies.
A ceremonial site, called rante, is usually prepared in a large, grassy field where shelters for audiences, rice barns, and other ceremonial funeral structures are specially made by the deceased family.
Several animals prey on the marsh rice rat, including the barn owl, and it usually lives for less than a year in the wild.
Not only had the usually calmly spoken, wonkish Rice given an emotional, barn-burning speech of the sort that had thousands of conventioneers cheering in the aisles but it had also hinted in no uncertain terms at the White House.
"We, the natives of Belitung, were like a pack of starving rats in a barn full of rice," says Ikal.
