Sentence examples for stone to build from inspiring English sources

The tenements and impressive civic and business buildings used the local slate and stone to build the city in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Might Labour have used said stone to build some houses?

The Tairona used stone to build houses, tombs, bridges, and terraced platforms.

"This, to me, is a bit like dismantling Stonehenge stone by stone to build a motorway services station".

Each stone they cast at this couple, he informed them, was a stone to build their own homes in paradise.

As a rule, he said, it takes a ton of stone to build a linear yard of four-foot-high wall.

"The villagers took the stones to build their own houses".

He balances stones to build walls and arches.

Villagers from both sides slowly join her, piling up stones to build a garden wall.

This is because (brace yourself, now) the people were too poor, in this land of stones, to build stone houses: they lived in turf bothies instead.

The villagers tore down the gate in the nineteen-seventies, because they wanted to use the stones to build a road out.