adobe

Example Sentences

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He added that the houses are also old and built with materials such as adobe, which was once frequently used in Andean communities.

From Seattle Times

Now the center of a protected ecological area called Águas Emendadas, her family’s plot included rows of fruiting plants and a foundry for adobe bricks.

From New York Times

“Those who do not have a car should have at least one bicycle,” Castillo, 51, told The Associated Press in mid-April at his adobe house in Anguía, Peru’s third poorest district.

From Seattle Times

Ruins of adobe homes are scattered around the village’s old Catholic church, giving parts of Ledoux the feel of a ghost town.

From New York Times

In the capital, Kabul, where traditional adobe houses line the hillsides, the city skyline has changed over the past 20 years, with clusters of high rise buildings going up. to accommodate a ballooning city population.

From BBC