dry-stone
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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About 30 million sheep inhabit Britain’s pastures, but its vast network of hand-built, dry-stone walls—there are 20,000 miles of them in Yorkshire alone—ceased to require upkeep after the invention of electric fences.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
ETH Zurich researchers deployed an autonomous excavator, called HEAP, to build a six metre-high and sixty-five-metre-long dry-stone wall.
From Science Daily • Nov. 22, 2023
The first time they entered Shush’s ancient synagogue, a monumental dry-stone structure on the edge of a fig orchard, it was full of livestock.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2022
We race by crumbling dry-stone walls, stone-ender homes built in the style of the seventeenth century, and deer munching on frozen grass.
From Salon • Jul. 21, 2019
On the other side, the fields, broken here and there by dry-stone dykes, a ditch or two, and one long thicket of shrubs, rose in a gentle ascent to the lime-kiln.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil
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