Meanings of build on stilts in English

The stadium was built on stilts and so was safe.

Several older homes in Bowen are built on stilts and not to withstand cyclonic conditions.

Look at the houses-they'reall built on stilts.

The first houses were built on stilts.

A town built on stilts, Qhoyre.

He tells about the town which was built on stilts over Lake Maracaibo, the mosquito plagues, the Sat.

Predating Ranai's airbase is the ethnic Chinese community of Penagi, a ramshackle village built on stilts along a nearby pier.

Most homes are built on stilts in the flood-prone area, so water had not risen above the floors in most cases.

These wooden houses are built on stilts near the water's edge, and are mainly found around Castro, the biggest town on the island.

Azonmayon Moses, 21-year-old teacher and first time voter, in his classroom in the Makoko shanty town built on stilts in a lagoon in Lagos.

A huge green chalet built on stilts, with two tiers of trains rumbling by, is the L station at 34th Street and Second Avenue.

In isolated settlements built on stilts along the river, most households survive on fishing and harvesting local fruits, earning just a few dollars a day.

She circled the vaulting fortress-itlooked like a cathedral, if a cathedral were built on stilts and had no stained glass, only steel and stone.

Its name is a distortion of "Little Venice", as the indigenous people lived in huts built on stilts in shallow lagoons when the conquistadors arrived.

Flood water covers sand dunes beneath beach houses built on stilts, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in South Bethany Beach, Delaware, October 30, 2012.