Sentence example with the word 'underpinning'

underpinning

base, bed, buttress, fond, fundamental, hardpan, prop, root, shore, stay, substruction, undercarriage

Last update: August 2, 2015


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There's only four feet lee-way in our culvert, sir, and the scour's eating into the underpinning; I am just up from there.   [Please select]

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The underpinning and Morganizing work has been done; the power of instant decision which Mr.   [Please select]

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For the moment he fancied that he would jerk bodily from off his underpinning.   [Please select]

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The workmen mean to use them for the underpinning of a house; but that would be for only one man’s advantage.   [Please select]

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"We select granite," he says, "for the underpinning of our houses and barns; we build fences of stone; but we do not ourselves rest on an underpinning of granite truth, the lowest primitive rock."   [Please select]

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You may guess I stood at attention soon enough, but told him I was looking at the founds to see if they wanted underpinning from the floods.   [Please select]

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