Sentence examples for the buttressed from inspiring English sources
noun
A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
The buttressed chapel has pinnacles and stained glass.
The buttressed trunk is usually less than 2 metres (6.6 feet) across, but 3-metre (10-foot) specimens have been observed.
A very short uphill walk to the south of Bruton took me through time, as it were, from familiar marks of the town's antiquity – the buttressed abbey wall, the packhorse bridge, schoolhouse and church – up to the displays of contemporary art that have attracted more than 100,000 visitors to the buildings and grounds of Hauser & Wirth Somerset since the centre opened last July.
They drive through the buttressed gates of the base, patrolled by armed National Guardsmen, and turn onto Fort Campbell Boulevard, passing the check-cashing outfits, the strip clubs and gun-and-ammo shops that, during peacetime anyway, boom with military business.
The findings show that wall elements under bending-compressive strains (i.e. the stem of the buttressed retaining wall) perform differently depending on the target function.
It was developed because of the buttress in Eton Chapel.
I especially liked the buttress roots, fern and vine.
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.
