Sentence examples for the buttress from inspiring English sources
noun
A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
It was developed because of the buttress in Eton Chapel.
I especially liked the buttress roots, fern and vine.
The upper portion of the buttress develops a meristem on the side facing the stem (adaxial meristem).
In the semi-darkness, the water laps the buttress roots of the giant kapok trees, amplifying their grandeur and mystery.
Thereafter, the buttress becomes more and more flattened in the transverse plane by laterally oriented cell divisions and further expansion growth on either side.
Ice chunks breaking off at a place on the Buttress called Windy Corner, they say, are gradually exposing a sharply steeper and potentially impassable face.
The matinee idol had been hired on the strength of a supposed strong resemblance, a comparison that didn't actually flatter the buttress-cheeked 1940s Tito.
Eight massive piers connect the buttresses of the dome area to the floor of the cathedral.
Where buttress foundations might yield, the design must allow some freedom of movement between the heads of the buttresses.
The other is the buttressing role of the thumb, which adds yet further stiffness.
Several variations are possible in the design of the junction between the buttresses at the water face.
