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buttress sentence examples

  • Buttress roots to support their great height.
  • The west end projects nearly 20 ft. beyond the face of the curtain, and has clasping buttresses at both angles.
  • Buttress at the south west corner of the nave.
  • A four-storey battlemented tower with massive corner buttresses was built in 1816 adjoining the north aisle, to replace an earlier structure.
  • Buttresses on the south side is a cross picked out in flint.
  • East wall:- separated from the chancel by a straight buttress from which rises an octagonal chimney.
  • Buttresses of the tower above.
  • Buttressed round tower.
  • In figure 8, the high flying buttresses have been used to build a very high nave with very large windows.
  • Buttress at northeast angle in ' b ' .
  • We emerge at the foot of a huge rocky buttress to delightful grassy pastures.
  • Buttresses on south wall in gray victorian sandstone.
  • Buttress just right of the birch wood.
  • Buttress of rock was spotted about 3 meters off the line of descent and an anchor was placed here.
  • Buttresses, walls quite four feet thick.
  • North wall: two stepped buttresses divide the nave into three bays to the west side of the vestry.
  • Buttress at east end could be of similar date.
  • The metal stake concreted into the ground on the flat area above the main buttress was removed by the national trust in august 2000.
  • Other smaller buttresses have provided a number of short problems.
  • The next buttress is... barker's buttress 95.

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