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How to use pilings in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word pilings? Here are some examples.

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Piledrivers drive heavy beams, or pilings, into the earth as a support for a structure.
They are cavity nesters that historically nested in tree cavities, old woodpecker holes, rotted pilings, and other natural cavities.
The house was a relic of Florida construction from the 1920s, a small wood-frame building raised on short concrete pilings.
Instead of being built on land, this shrine was constructed on pilings in a bay.
Where the Mississippi is 40 feet deep, the bridge's pilings go into bedrock 140 feet beneath the water's surface.
They offered whale-watching cruises and restored the old buildings that perched on pilings along the rim of the harbour.
These fish prefer shallow water and are commonly found in bays around eelgrass, oil platforms, pilings of wharfs and piers, and in back waters.
They particularly like buoys, pilings, wrecks, anchored boats, flotsam, etc., and will sometimes congregate around these objects.
These may be expected in rocky areas or among pilings and in other habitats not well sampled by traditional methods such as seining or trawling.
Development in rural areas means concrete houses built on pilings to allow a breezeway and carport underneath.
Located on a cordgrass marsh, the house rests on random pilings that blend in with the pine grove.
The sounds of the waves lapping against the pilings would quickly lull Lily to dreamland, especially since she hadn't slept well the night before.
The fishing piers create viable habitats for creatures such as oysters, mussels and sponges which are easily scraped from the sides of the pilings.
His dramatic compositions of bridge pilings, freeway foundations and steel frameworks are as calmly sculpturesque as a Greek Kouri yet still create a sense of unease.
Zander tend to spawn on submerged tree stumps, branches and reeds, although it is suspected that they can also spawn on plants and even canal pilings.
Often they will be seen picking pieces of filamentous algae from pilings.
Stiltsville is a collection of buildings on pilings on several sand flats at the northern end of the Safety Valve.
In the United States, pilings are mainly cut from southern yellow pines and Douglas firs.
Wooden bridges were constructed on pilings sunk into the river, or on stone piers.
One of the earliest known fords was the crossing at Littleborough, constructed by the Romans it was paved with flagstones, and supported by substantial timber pilings.
Examples from Classical Literature
They are necessary so that we can increase our annual output of poles, pilings, cooperage and veneer.
That was the unmistakable lurch we felt, but no one expects to run into pilings in mid-ocean, so every one knew what it was.
Around three of the pilings brush and grass had gathered, picked up from the current.
The air was damp and cold and the waters of the bay were lapping softly against the pilings which supported the building.
It was midday when we tied Gadabout to the pilings beside the bridge, and the weather was hot and sultry.
Standing on the upper deck, we could look down stream to the place where our houseboat had been stopped by the row of pilings.
Anina nosed its bow into this doorway, and grasping one of the pilings near at hand, brought it to rest.
Some of them gathered under the pier, clustering about the pilings.
They encrust boats, dock pilings, old cans and shells and rocks.
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