Examples of 'built on stilts' in a sentence

Meaning of "built on stilts"

Built on stilts refers to a construction technique where a building or structure is elevated and supported by long, sturdy poles or stilts. This is commonly seen in areas prone to flooding or in coastal regions to protect the structure from rising water levels or tidal waves.

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Some houses were built on stilts as shown by excavations.
The houses on the shore are built on stilts.
Houses built on stilts over the water.
We found a native camp built on stilts.
It is built on stilts where salt marshes once lay.
Instead the base installations were built on stilts.
Houses are normally built on stilts about a metre high.
Traditionally they live in small houses that are built on stilts.
Some houses were built on stilts over larger lagoons.
The village is known for its traditional houses built on stilts.
Many houses were built on stilts to protect themselves against flooding.
Picturesque bungalows built on stilts.
The houses are built on stilts or level with the ground.
This traditional village consists of about a hundred houses built on stilts.
This house is built on stilts.

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Bangkok includes a lake dwelling made of boats and houses built on stilts.
Most dwellings in the area are built on stilts to withstand floods.
The other type consisted of seven interconnected steel platforms built on stilts.
Houses are built on stilts.
The houses here are made with local materials and most are built on stilts.
Entire neigborhood of homes built on stilts over the water in tropical area.
Damaging winds uprooted numerous trees and power poles and toppled wooden houses built on stilts.
Most primitive homes are built on stilts due to frequent flooding during the rainy season.
A canoe trip through the less visited villages built on stilts on the lake.
Most primitive homes are built on stilts due to frequent flooding during the rainy seasons.
Enjoy lunch in an old Muslim village built on stilts.
It is a village built on stilts on the Tonle Sap.
Like all the other houses, it is built on stilts.
The Miki Miki Bar is built on stilts over the magnificent lagoon of Rangiroa.
The Riau region is characterised by villages built on stilts over waterways.
Houses built on stilts to stay above the flood, with no doors or.
Lodge of Saharan designed as cabins built on stilts in the middle of palm.
At the top of a hill, we crossed a first village with bamboo houses built on stilts.
Visit the village of Koh Payee built on stilts hundreds of years ago.
If stairs are required in this path, they must be built on stilts.
This is a typical house there, built on stilts to deal with fluctuating water levels.
They have cut the mangroves and that 's why the houses are built on stilts.
I wasn't built on stilts.
In former days, the Co lived in long houses built on stilts.
Shop houses built on stilts over the water . Nowadays, Ban Saladaan on.
You can see houses made of bamboo matting and built on stilts in eastern Bhutan.
In those days, Pigafetta reported … that the people here lived on houses built on stilts.
In the south, straw houses built on stilts are common.
After saying good - night, we retire to four little thatched A - frame bungalows built on stilts.
Houses in Pointe-aux-Chenes are built on stilts to accommodate seasonal and storm flooding . [ 8 ].
There is no pool . This house is built on stilts.
The construction is known locally as Rumah Panggung ( lit, " stage house " ) houses built on stilts.
It is famous for its open-air seafood restaurants built on stilts over the water.
Boats that weaken more and more the city of Venice, built on stilts.
Spend a leisurely half-day exploring Kampong Phluk, a village built on stilts over the Tonle Sap Lake.

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