"building" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Roofless, windows smashed, doors torn off their hinges, the flimsy buildings cowered under the wind and weather.
- I looked up from the street and she waved at me from the strange, flimsy building.
- Several experts blamed unscrupulous contractors and ineffective inspectors for having contributed to the scope of the catastrophe by allowing the construction of flimsy buildings.
- Wayne was David Koresh's legal advisor, but took his turn in helping construct the flimsy wooden building.
- Duncan dropped to his knees with a rumble that shook the flimsy building and wrapped his arms around himself.
- Long before the disaster, a 1998 government report pointed to an increasing number of flimsy buildings vulnerable to such an earthquake.
- The quake was not much more severe than yesterday's, being rated at magnitude 6.3, but the water-logged terrain shook severely and flimsy buildings collapsed.
- Many flimsy buildings were destroyed in the neighborhoods.
- Thousands of trees were flattened, roofs - and flimsier buildings - were swept away.
- Thus, the flimsy wooden building the governor's wife had criticized in her diary as "damp" and "miserable" was reincarnated as a more impressive stone structure.
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