stilt
Example Sentences
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But Dr Lari argues building an entire village on stilts would be unfeasible and too expensive.
From BBC
Every family—including Sothea and his wife, who took in six children—got its own wooden house, built Cambodian-style on stilts on a leafy riverside property Johnson purchased in Phnom Penh.
The trail eventually took me into the waterways of Makoko, one of the city's poorest districts, where wooden houses balanced on stilts rise on the edge of Lagos Lagoon.
From BBC
"That is rubbish on stilts," he said, adding: "We can't have our cake and eat it. We will have to choose."
From BBC
“I went to them and said, ‘Hey, can we have one of those stilt walkers?’” says Slash, referring to the larger-than-life lurkers who haunt guests during the festivities.
From Los Angeles Times
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