Sentence examples for were surmounted by from inspiring English sources

Stumpy piers were surmounted by serpentine, Celtic-style ornament, just like that of the Tower Building.

The steeper gradients were surmounted by steps cut in the rocks.

That possibility gains some likelihood from the fact that some Indian flagstaffs were surmounted by a figure similar to that displayed on the flag itself.

Students recognised that they needed to appeal to active learners, so the initial idea was for a course where physical obstacles were surmounted by reaching the answers to maths problems.

King designated the planation process pedimentation, and his end point "pediplains" were surmounted by inselbergs (isolated hills standing above plains, the name being derived from the German term for "island mountains") rather than monadnocks.

In the Sept. 17, 1955, issue of The New Yorker, Mr. Hersey also wrote that, in Winsted, "nearly all the Main Street stores backing on the watercourse were surmounted by rickety wooden tenements, mostly three or four stories high, many of them connected to each other on the river side by continuous wooden porches".

His domed head was surmounted by long, thick, prematurely white hair.

Two gilded infants support the clock, which is surmounted by a happy Cupid.

It's surmounted by a spinning laser turret and knobbed with cameras, radar, antennas, and G.P.S.

A chair used for hair-styling is surmounted by Louis XVI frame & upholstery.

The memorial is 117 feet (36 metres) tall and is surmounted by a granite shaft.