Sentence examples for town built on from inspiring English sources
Cornwall was a town built on a paper mill, that one operation employing most of his family.
The older town, built on the mountain slope, descends to the French-built sector spread along the road to Algiers and containing the business and industrial quarters.
Plus, St . Louiscouldn't exist without baseball and beer, and has not only been widely hailed as America's best baseball town, but also is an unquestioned beer town — built on the backs of Anheuser-Busch — and now boasts one of the most respected craft beer communities in the U.S. led by Schlafly and Urban Chestnut, among other stellar microbrews.
Bukavu is a ragged, devastated town built on the banks of Lake Kivu in the east of Congo; at one time the Belgian colonisers tried to make it a lakeside retreat, so stunning is the setting.
Austin is a town built on bikes.
Gladstone is a town built on coal.
Las Vegas, of course, is a town built on risk.
Washington is a lawyer's town, built on protocols and rules.
McMinnville is a town built on second chances.
In a town built on hype, "bombshell" is an over-used word.
The capital was subsequently moved to Honiara, a new town built on Guadalcanal.
