8 sentences with 'buildings'
Example sentences and phrases with the word buildings and other words derived from it.
• « Begun in the 1920s, the collection of 17th, 18th and 19th century buildings was transported from all over the country to settle in a corner of Michigan: the streets are cobblestone and there are gas lamps. »
• « The chance of a lightning strike to a wooden house in a neighborhood with a lot of buildings is about one in a hundred. »
• « Although the construction of pyramids never occurred after the Old Kingdom, Egyptian kings remained focused on the creation of great buildings. »
• « Everywhere, the Greeks became a new elite class, establishing Greek laws and Greek buildings and services. »
• « By 600 BC the Romans had drained the swamp in the middle of their territory and built the first of their great public buildings. »
• « When the Romans finally conquered Greece itself, they had already spent hundreds of years absorbing Greek ideas and culture, modelling their architecture on the great buildings of the classical Greek era and studying Greek ideas. »
• « The implications of Romanitas for political and military loyalty and morality are obvious. A less obvious expression of Romanitas, however, was in public buildings and celebrations. »
• « Even in the city of Rome, most citizens lived in squalor, crammed into apartment buildings many stories high, made of flammable wood, overlooking open sewers. »