Sentence examples for thatched dwelling from inspiring English sources
At dusk on the previous day, Herzog had filmed a scene in which Dengler, after making a bed of banana leaves for the delirious Martin, sets a thatched dwelling ablaze, in a failed effort to attract attention from American rescue pilots.
The few houses bordered on the whimsical: a traditionally thatched dwelling with a solar panel (old hippies?), a house in the round (new yuppies?), and even a perfectly proportioned three-story conch shell.
A group of Native Hawaiian men, women and a girl, standing and sitting in front of a thatched dwelling on the island of Niihau in the 1880s.
Similarly, Wintun houses varied by region: River Patwin houses were earth-covered domes while Hill Patwin used conical bark structures and simpler thatched dwellings.
Many of the annular and hexagonal European beads recovered from house floors had been affected by the fires that burnt down the thatched dwellings in the 1865 battle.
By the end of the 9th century the vast majority of Tikal's population had deserted the city, its royal palaces were occupied by squatters and simple thatched dwellings were being erected in the city's ceremonial plazas.
They live in small villages; traditional housing consisted of communal dwellings, although single-family thatched dwellings are now more common.
They were warlike seminomadic people who lived in large thatched dwellings grouped in villages; each village was surrounded by a defensive palisade.
The dishevelled figures, lined faces and arid landscapes have a raw power and a dignified heroism that is deeply moving.Another motif he explored during his time in the Borinage was cottages and thatched dwellings.
Nearly three-fourths of the population is rural, typically living in thatched dwellings grouped together in villages of between 150 and 600 inhabitants and surrounded by cultivated fields and grazing lands.
For the thoughtful participants it is a reminder that once everyone lived in such insecure, wooden, thatched dwellings.
