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Sentence Examples On July 2 in that year, a fire swept through the village, destroying dozens of the thatched and timber buildings. My room had two large beds with mosquito nets, elegant dark furniture and a high-pitched thatched roof. Inside his thatched bungalow, Bradson read what had been photocopied from a hand-printed original. We dined by oil lamp under a thatched cabana and listened agog to virtuoso folk musicians. He lived very frugally in a small thatched cottage at Ickford in the greatest obscurity and anchorism. It was a low, squat building, with turf for walls and a thatched roof that sloped nearly to the ground. In the houses and thatched roofs, the natural materials' vibrancy still resonates in their ochre hues. He shrugs off any discomfort of sharing space with rodents and other wildlife that live in the thatched canopies. Many of the buildings have lost their thatched roofs or have had them replaced by crude sheets of corrugated iron. Rural houses usually are built of traditional materials and are open-sided rectangular structures with thatched roofs and raised floors. Beyond the house was what appeared to be a tiny village, but was in fact a number of farm buildings with thatched roofs. The 40 rooms are small round huts with thatched roofs rising to a central spire. Afterwards they allowed us to sling our hammocks in one of their thatched shelters while they all went down to sleep on sandbanks by the river. The timbered house is long and low, with a relatively low-pitched thatched roof. England is not just full of white, middle class people and the countryside is not all sleepy lanes and thatched cottages. He hid inside a tussock of oat grass and watched as the fine thatched house rose up beside the water-hole. The thatched bar, nestled in a tiny village of about 12 houses, has already enjoyed a busy year. The outside, barely seen by the light of the eerie street lamps, was old and darkly shingled, with a thatched roof, and a smoking chimney. As the resort's rules demand, walls are sculpted out of white rendered masonry, and there is a shallow thatched roof. Masses of vines spiraled upward against the vertical timbers and covered the thatched roof. Show More Sentences The villages, where they were not destroyed in the ravages of war, were composed of small cottages with mostly thatched roofs or grey tiles. There were roofs that needed to be thatched and walls and doors that needed to be mended. The roofs were thatched, turfed or covered in wood shingles, depending on available local resources. Old farmhouses lie abandoned throughout the country while thatched cottages are rare. He said more than 200 thatched homes had been burnt down, with scores of people fleeing the area. The walls in these villages are plastered with cement or mud and most of the houses have thatched roofs. They can spend the night in Harome, in another beautifully thatched building just a short walk down the village main street. Like most farms, its roof was thatched, and it wasn't very special in any other way either. Another concrete house nestled amongst the more traditional black and white thatched houses. The homes at the turn of the century were all built from fieldstones and had thatched roofs. Although it is illegal to have thatched roofs on schools, the practice is widespread and largely ignored. The final, and most exposed of these cottages is unique, being the last thatched one on this coast. The roof was thatched and a small stone chimney cheerfully puffed out bits of dark smoke. Yellow and red wooden canoes drift across to Ambu and Lilisiana, two thatched villages on stilts at opposite ends of the bay. Houses are usually rectangular and have mud walls and a gabled roof thatched with straw. The thatched roofs are made out of palm fronds, and the walls out of bamboo or cane. I'd taken a one-hour bush flight to Bendekonde, a village of tentlike thatched huts along the upper reaches of the Suriname River. That time Mary McCormack in her little thatched shop kept flour, tea, sugar, salt, lamp oil, and perhaps some liquorice sweets. Many of the poor ride bicycles, wear old and sometimes tattered clothing, and live in thatched homes. During his career, he has attended road accidents, air crashes, forest fires and blazing thatched cottages. Show More Sentences The experts reckon the house originally has a thatched or cut wood roof supported by a wattle wall and timber posts. When they had crossed to the far side of the square, they came to a straw colored building with a thatched roof. Armed with machetes and machineguns, the raiders scythe through the rows of huts, torching their thatched roofs. Traditional architectural styles are found in the rural communities, with variously shaped adobe houses with thatched roofs. In rural areas of Latin America, adobe houses with thatched roofs are fixtures of the landscape. He said such incidents are common because of the flammable materials involved in the construction of thatched cottages. The floor of the main building is elevated and roofs are generally thatched with cogon grasses and Japanese cypress bark. This area of South Kilkenny is noted for the number of clustered farm villages and the number of thatched roofs which still predominate. People used kerosene for cooking and lighting, which was dangerous because of the thatched roofs. A beautiful landscape shows several traditional thatched huts, but they all sport the sails seen on windmills across Holland. Here and now, in a cooperative of 36 families, papaya and lime trees shaded thatched houses elegantly constructed of smooth wooden poles. A few houses of local materials, with pandanus thatch sides and thatched roofs, still exist. I believe I have mentioned before that we thatched the stacks with reeds cut from the ditches using a long pole scythe. The village square is dominated by a pristine, thatched church enclosed within a walled yard. They lived in one of the last thatched houses in the region and always kept it in wonderful shape. Learn how to weave a headband, play traditional native drums, perform the haka or create a thatched hut whilst watching contemporary and traditional groups entertain. As the roof was thatched with straw, it was soon a mass of flames. The walls and floors were made of stone, and the roof was thatched. As the rat scurries along the rafters and through the thatched roofs of 14th Century England the infected fleas would drop down off their backs onto the humans below. In mountain villages some houses have adobe walls and thatched roofs. Show More Sentences The roof had not been freshly thatched for years and the whole thing leaked abominably. The terminal is wall-less in dark teak would with thatched roofs and big wooden benches scattered around. It was still possible to meander down country lanes, see horses pull ploughs and smell woodsmoke from the chimneys of thatched cottages in the evenings. He was a thatcher and thatched roofs in the white suburbs of Johannesburg. It was still early and the ideal time to pay a quick visit to the thatched Beck Isle Cottage, surely the most chocolate boxy house in the county, and the almshouses. Similar picturesque thatched cottages with lattice windows are illustrated in the children's picture sheets issued by early nineteenth-century publishers. Directly on the other side of the stream were two very rundown thatched, whitewashed cottages that also looked as if they had been left to the mercy of the elements. Here, the Normans do have a thing or two to learn, because many of the thatched cottages have a row of irises planted along the ridge of the roof. There is also a thatched roundhouse, ring fort and stone chamber. I saw a house with a thatched roof and a satellite dish on top. Where we live is so picturesque that even the bus shelters are thatched. A well thatched roof into which has gone the skill of a master craftsman can last for 50 years or even more depending on the pitch of the roof and where in the country it is. Following the Kumbakonam deaths, the Tamil Nadu government banned thatched roofs, and the schools were now building concrete ones. We did look alike, with our nearly identical short, thatched, and blond-streaked hair, our high cheekbones and strong chins. Worn out, he retired to Cardross, his quiet, thatched, unfortified summer hall on the Clyde, and sailed and fished like the Celtic forebears he was careful to acknowledge. Some villages appeared to have been recently vacated, their neatly tended walled compounds of round mud huts and peaked thatched roofs empty of people and animals. Clustered around it are a choice of ecodwellings, including wooden cabins on stilts, clay huts with thatched roofs, large tepees and round tents sleeping one. The roof was thatched, like all the other houses in the village. The houses were wooden, with thatched roofs and smoking chimneys. I climb down to the little settlement where my friend is working in front of a small wooden hut, called a bale, raised on poles and thatched with cogon grass. Show More Sentences Her house is a small thatched cubby-hole with an empty grain storage pot. Homes are constructed of waddle and daub with thatched roofs. Round huts called mundals are made from poles and brush or vines plastered with mud, animal dung, and ashes and covered with a broad, cone-shaped thatched roof. The yard remained active until 1957, when a fire destroyed the thatched barn and cattle yards, leaving the existing buildings. Ireland has long been associated with thatched roof cottages, though these are nowadays considered quaint. The numerous population of natives, he says, live in thatched cottages, store their grain in subterranean caches and bake bread from it. It has traditionally been typified by wooden structures, elevated slightly off the ground, with tiled or thatched roofs. Bede however was critical of the fact that the church was not built of stone but only of hewn oak thatched with reeds. Apart from these areas of high moorland the county has attractive rolling rural scenery and villages with thatched cob cottages. By the middle of the 15th century, Aberdare contained a water mill in addition to a number of thatched cottages, of which no evidence remains. There are about 60,000 thatched roofs in the UK and many more are being built every year. Lew, a thatched hurdle, supported by sticks, and set up in a field to screen lambs, etc. from the wind. Firefighters saved the Heckling Shed but not before pounds 7,000 of damage was done to the thatched roof. A thatched roof ensures that a building is cool in summer and warm in winter. The chickees of the Seminole and Miccosukee are still thatched with palmetto leaves. A kraal was a homestead and usually included a simple fenced-in enclosure for animals, fields for growing crops, and one or more thatched huts. Their homes were, as in earlier centuries, thatched huts with one or two rooms, although later on during this period, roofs were also tiled. Visiting Nakabuta on Viti Levu, we were invited to enter the largest of the thatched houses to participate in the traditional yaqona ceremony. They will be joined by woodturners, blacksmiths, basket weavers, potters, timber framers and thatched roof specialists. The roundhouse, measuring 20ft in diameter and 14ft high, is being hand-made with wattle and daub walls, beams and a thatched roof. Show More Sentences So don't expect to see ticky-tacky kitsch in the form of thatched roofs or bamboo torches when you vist Hogo. The stack was fenced from the rest of the paddock in a rick yard, and often thatched or sheeted to keep it dry. The principal Swazi social unit is the homestead, a traditional beehive hut thatched with dry grass. The Cherokee lived in wattle and daub houses made with wood and clay, roofed with wood or thatched grass. The place was really no more than a cottage, wattle-daubed walls and a thatched roof with an ale bush pushed under the eaves. Before the hall stands the golden tree Glasir, and the hall's ceiling is thatched with golden shields. Locke was born on 29 August 1632, in a small thatched cottage by the church in Wrington, Somerset, about 12 miles from Bristol. In Southeast Asia, mangrove nipa palm leaves are used as thatched roof material known as attap dwelling. Bangladeshi villages consist of thatched roofed houses made of natural materials like mud, straw, wood and bamboo. The grand structures are made of thatched grass and local lava stones. On 10 April 2015 a thatched boathouse caught fire shortly after a burning cannonball was fired by the trebuchet. Some thatched roofs in the UK are extremely old and preserve evidence of traditional materials and methods that have long since been lost. A law passed in 1640 in Massachusetts outlawed the use of thatched roofs in the colony for this reason. A replica Iron Age thatched roof, Butser Ancient Farm, Hampshire, England. The town centre was further destroyed by the Great Fire of Northampton in 1675, caused by sparks from an open fire in a thatched cottage by the castle. After the Restoration of the Monarchy the thatched cottage was replaced with a purpose-built toll booth slightly to the south, the original now renovated building we know. The disease resides in the belly of the triatoma bug, a long-snouted insect that drops down from thatched roofs and wall crevices onto sleeping victims. For those, including us, who had come to the sale hamperless, relief was at hand in a refreshments marquee that had been put up near the thatched cottages. In Bali, Indonesia, the black fibres of Arenga pinnata called ijuk is also used as thatched roof materials, usually used in Balinese temple roof and meru towers. The earliest temples were probably thatched huts built upon low platforms. Show More Sentences All thatched roofs should have smoke detectors in the roof space. Baked mud bricks and especially concrete blocks are also used nowadays, with thatched roofs still common, although often replaced by corrugated roofing sheets. The thatched semispherical huts of palm tree leaves and tamarisk were also interesting, as was the windmill, identical with those already seen in Sistan. The church was established immediately after the founding of the settlement, although the original building, fashioned from wood with a thatched roof, was quickly destroyed. As the plane skids to a stop on the tarmac of Punta Cana International Airport, the first impression of the Dominican Republic is of openair breezeways and thatched roofs. New thatched roofs were forbidden in London in 1212 following a major fire, and existing roofs had to have their surfaces plastered to reduce the risk of fire. Gradually, thatch became a mark of poverty, and the number of thatched properties gradually declined, as did the number of professional thatchers. Examples from Classical Literature Many native villages exist near leopoldville, consisting of huts formed of wooden frames and thatched with grass. In one corner was a linney, with a thatched roof supported on wooden pillars in front and closed in at back and sides. He was hard at work in putting a thatched roof on a hut which he had built. The floor usually consists of split bamboo, the thatched roof of elephant grass. Then the eyes roamed about the campong to rest at last upon the slanting roof of the thatched shed which was its shelter. Jo Ann jerked the crude, hand-made chair off the oxcart and set it down in the shade of the thatched roof of the house. They lived in thatched houses constructed of rammed earth and plaster, with beaten floors on which dry grass was strewn as carpet. The nest of the willow warbler, to which I have referred, is a kind of thatched cottage upholstered with feathers. The houses of Seloufeeat and Tintaghoda have, however, a true African aspect, being thatched with leaves of the doom palm. The big house and kitchen were thatched, and all the houses were mudded and white-washed with lime. They live in huts made of split bamboo and thatched with elephant grass, called kudumbus. Others ran to the cooking hangis, and with burning sticks from the ovens set fire to some of the thatched houses in the kainga. In a few minutes we came to an open-sided hut, with a thatched roof. The poles were then drawn over in a dome and thatched with reeds or brush. Gone were the thatched huts of his sturdy retainers, empty the fields, the pastures, and corrals. The thatched roofs, which were of unequal thickness, looked like brown velvet and could resist the fiercest gales. Beyond the fires he saw huts of mud and wattle, thatched with brush. A thatched roof that leaked in every heavy shower leaned to a wabbly ridge-pole over the floor. The escort were so wretchedly clothed, that they twisted straw round their bare legs, and thatched their ragged shoulders to keep the wet off. The cottages are thatched, and the walls are of cobbles, plastered. Show More Sentences There was a rude rectangle walled with logs and boulders, in which were a hundred or more thatched huts of similar con-struction. Presently, against one of those banks, I saw a sort of shed, thatched with the same wine-coloured grass that grew everywhere. The thatched roofs fell over the fires, and flames burst forth in all parts. The farmhouses were my delight, with thatched roofs, ivy up to the eaves, latticed windows, and stout women with rosy children at the doors. Close by stood a large haystack, and between it and the house a little out-house, covered with a flat thatched roof. Six-inch trees, throated with rotten remnants of thatched roofs through which they had aspired toward the sun, rose about him. It was a story-and-a-half-high structure, thatched with straw. She pointed to the trees which thatched the slopes of the hills. Attempts were made to burn the thatched roofs of the pueblo. They wound across beautiful parklike meadows and through dark, forbidding forests, and now and again they passed tiny hamlets of thatched huts. He told me stories of hayricks and thatched roofs set on fire if the balloons landed before the flame went out. He was born in 1672 in the quaint little thatched parsonage of Milston, a Wiltshire village, not far from that strange monument of ancient days, Stonehenge. The horses also had been fed for a fortnight on straw from the thatched roofs and had become terribly thin, though still covered with tufts of felty winter hair. On the outskirts of the town, within the verge of the peninsula, but not in close vicinity to any other habitation, there was a small thatched cottage. At intervals we passed a wretched cabin, with a thatched roof, and about it small fields and garden patches in an indifferent state of cultivation. Find more words! 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What is the noun for thatched? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words thatch that being the case that being so that being said thataway that. thatcher Thatcher Thatcherism thatcherite Thatcherite thatchers 8-letter Words Starting With t th tha that thatc thatch thatche