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Example sentences for "scaffoldings"

Lexicographically close words:
scads; scaena; scaffold; scaffolded; scaffolding; scaffolds; scagliola; scairt; scais; scait
  1. Up above there were scaffoldings and ladders; in other words, bridges and stairs in the direction of liberty.

  2. These scaffoldings are not always kept at that place, but they are specially made for these feasts; there are eleven of them.

  3. These latter seem in old times to have been the designers of scaffoldings and makers of beams for roofing; wood-carvers and inlayers were called Maestri d'intaglio.

  4. All that part which was lucky enough to be comprised in his plan of the waterworks is accurately preserved in his naif and faithful drawings, in which the scaffoldings are put in as carefully as the finished buildings.

  5. He was waiting for the rotten scaffoldings up above, among the grass of the nave, to be resuscitated like the dead, and by the force of some miracle to stand upright once more, along the walls.

  6. Bands of enormous rats which had taken refuge under bits of the lowered scaffoldings would fight, and bite, and bound out of their holes in a gallop of terror.

  7. Outside this man's house there were many scaffoldings for drying fish.

  8. Their scaffoldings and storehouses were like those of the natives already described, and during their migrations are left without guards and universally respected.

  9. The men lived in huts placed upon scaffoldings fifteen or twenty feet high.

  10. And so one put his hand to the scaffoldings and the other to the ties, and each carried out his work.

  11. Meanwhile Andrea Contini stood beside him, examining the scaffoldings with his bright brown eyes, in no way disconcerted by the prospect.

  12. It smelt like a vault, and a dim grey light entered the square apertures from the curtained scaffoldings without, just sufficient to help one to find a way through the heaps of rubbish that covered the unpaved floors.

  13. Here and there tall detached houses rose out of the wilderness, mostly covered by scaffoldings and swarming with workmen, but hideous where so far finished as to be visible in all the isolation of their six-storied nakedness.

  14. In the house-painting line it often happens that a man has to give up working on ladders and scaffoldings at fifty.

  15. And just as they were reaching the summit where the basilica reared its forest of scaffoldings beneath the clear sky, they encountered Thomas, who, on leaving the factory, had gone to give an order to a founder in the Rue Lamarck.

  16. Upon them there were several scaffoldings with projections, like flat surfaces of cedar branches, and two special peaks of unequal height at the top, the whole being nearly fifty feet from the ground.

  17. And so he commanded that it should be erected upon props so as not to touch the walls, a method of making scaffoldings for vaults that he taught afterwards to Bramante and others, whereby many fine works have been executed.

  18. Are we any happier for perching on chairs around great scaffoldings and piling the scaffoldings with so many kinds of porcelain and metal?

  19. Stairs and scaffoldings are necessary; therefore, die for them if need be.

  20. Under the skin roofs of their log-cabins and on the scaffoldings upon the gravel beach were many hundred salmon that had been caught in this curious way.

  21. Insects, birds, and animals all make little scaffoldings with their wee emotions, especially kittens and butterflies.

  22. As soon as the workings are completed to the proposed extent, the coal scaffoldings are worked away, and as much of the pillars as can be removed with safety.


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scaffoldings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.