How To Use stonework In A Sentence
- In a few quick glances he absorbed the entire rolling farmland: green stonework mortared by tree windbreaks.
- After six expeditions to Easter Island, including one in 1986 during which he uncovered ancient ceremonial constructions, human teeth and bones, soil containing charcoal, and stonework similar to that found in pre-Inca sites, Thor stoutly phonated that the island's first inhabitants arrived from Peru around 800 B.C., traveling in balsa-log rafts, such as the one he sailed from Peru to Polynesia in 1947, the raft he called Kon Tiki. Richard Bangs: Skullduggery on Easter Island (Part I of II)
- The Corbridge pele, built of reused Roman stonework, lies on the edge of the churchyard and was the vicar's house.
- With its mellow stonework and battlemented towers, mirrored on the surface of a broad moat skimmed on a summer day by turquoise dragonflies, Bodiam is everybody's idea of what a castle should look like. The House Impregnable
- Certain plants are ideal for growing in the crevices of a wall and will help to soften the harsh texture of the stonework.
- Experts say the buildings are riddled with asbestos, crumbling stonework and ageing electrical equipment and wiring. Times, Sunday Times
- The figure, wearing the distinctive mitre - the ceremonial hat of a bishop - replaces an eroded piece of decorative stonework.
- The restoration will also include work to the stonework of the north and south transepts, which are also crumbling badly.
- Long stretches of streams have been canalised - the canal at the beginning of Barry Hertzog Avenue contains some beautiful stonework - but in the process the city has lost valuable natural streams.
- The building. although still basically ugly, looked nicer with the late April sun glinting on the old stonework.
