| This compound derrick, powered by horses or steam, served as a prototype for the steel derricks used in high-rise construction today. |
| There were oil derricks and natural gas pipelines, grain elevators six stories high. |
| The great steel derricks and their crisscrossing cables cast curiously foreshortened shadows on the gleaming white expanse. |
| A few nameless shrubs, oil derricks and transmission towers line the far edges of the highway. |
| The ship is self-sufficient in that it has its own derricks enabling to load and unload all over the world. |
| Soon drilling derricks, pipelines and roads carved up the region, and oil spills polluted lakes and rivers. |
