Sentence examples for stones laid from inspiring English sources

The archways over the entrances were made of multicolored stones laid in a fan design.

There were flat stones laid in the ground to form the numbers 9/11.

The survival expert had mixed feelings about scenes in which DiCaprio catches fish from shallow waters using stones laid out in a horseshoe pattern.

But the stones laid along the curving lines where the German trenches had been were the same as during the interwar years, when the Germans chiselled the names of patriotic organizations into them, turning them into monuments to nationalism.

His standard cross section was 18 feet wide and consisted of an eight-inch-thick course of uniform foundation stones laid edgewise on the natural formation and covered by a two-inch layer of walnut-sized broken stone.

Stones laid a pass back to him, there was a clumsy drag-back which showed too much ball to Rooney and Bravo was lucky not to concede a penalty when lunging at the forward.

However, their period of domination may well have seen the foundation stone laid on that glorious day in May 1985.

So he redesigned the rooftop, rebuilding the vertical wall — the parapet — in red brick and cast stone laid in alternating stripes.

The loud colours and individualistic dress of the players reflected and influenced the counterculture of the 1960s; musically, Sly and the Family Stone laid the foundation for much of the street funk, soul, and disco music of the 1970s.

The likelihood of a respite for Bil'in from the Israeli authorities recedes with every foundation stone laid in the neighbouring settlements; the likelihood of rapprochement between the Israeli and Palestinian people grows ever slimmer.

And the much-vaunted smart city promised by the PlanIT initiative in Portugal has yet to see a single stone laid – smart or otherwise.