caisson
Example Sentences
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The largest foundation rests on a buried caisson 54-feet wide, 99-feet long and 20 feet deep, supported beneath by hollow concrete tubes that plunge 120 feet below sea level.
From Seattle Times
Fletcher was eligible for burial at the famed military cemetery by virtue of being a former POW, but his rank didn’t qualify for a horse-drawn caisson, an escort platoon and a band.
From Washington Times
The memorial sits on fill dredged in the late 1800s from the Potomac River, and on 634 pilings and caissons sunk down to bedrock on the south side of the Tidal Basin.
From Washington Post
Christopher Slutman is to leave a Bronx funeral home atop a fire engine caisson Friday morning for St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue.
From Seattle Times
A $48,800 grant was awarded to Parkers Crossroads Battlefield for a replica Civil War artillery caisson and interpretive signage.
From Washington Times
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