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
Among other things, Sally Millington, 45, from York, has tried bell-ringing, dry-stone walling, cliff camping, wheelchair basketball and stand-up comedy since 2018.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2025
A multidisciplinary team of ETH Zurich researchers developed a method of using an autonomous excavator to construct a dry-stone wall that is six metres high and sixty-five metres long.
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
I had not taken twenty steps when I ran up against the dry-stone dyke that bordered the Inns of Tynrec.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil
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