Eight or nine feet of old poured-concrete foundation was exposed along the back side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Night Crew]

Everything else in the park was either a road or new lawn bounded by neat poured-concrete curbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Persuader]

A poured-concrete rather than dirt foundation allows the house to stand upright rather than list or sag.    From Wordnik.com.  [Building Your Own Antique] Reference

Knocking down a poured-concrete garage cannot be an easy task, and I have sympathy for the men doing this labor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-07] Reference

As part of the construction, the original wood floor is being replaced with some sort of poured-concrete system.    From Wordnik.com.  [UVillage Apple Store progresses | Seattle Metblogs] Reference

A new complex of warehouses and repair facilities was built around steel A-frames that sat on massive poured-concrete slabs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rogue Warrior]

The bridge on the Interstate you drive across somewhere in the desert lands far out of town is the highest poured-concrete one in the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humanity's Ground Zero] Reference

Then once again I'd be walking up the two steps of the poured-concrete porch, reaching into the black mailbox, heart pounding, fingers grasping - Where is it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [the secret sense]

Indeed, it's great as a training tool for potential future engineers, although a lot will have to be unlearnt in order to move from Lego to poured-concrete construction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snell-Pym » 2009 » January] Reference

Ferrocement is not as forgiving of careless practices as conventional concrete, and in the field it demands new degrees of control, compared to the simplicity of poured-concrete techniques.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

Bathed in natural light from a big window, it's a raised perch that takes in the communal tables beneath the weighty iron chandeliers as well as Estadio's central poured-concrete bar, inspired by a bullring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Sietsema on Estadio: The reign of Spain continues in Washington with a welcome newcomer] Reference

Now the Americans were ransacking the house in search of weapons Jamal may have hidden between flower-patterned mattresses stacked atop creaky plywood shelves or in the threadbare clothes the soldiers had tossed out of the sole closet onto the poured-concrete floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace Meals] Reference

On a recent visit my eyes took in the immaculate offices and their gardens, the high-voltage electric grids and phone switching stations, the dizzying sweep of giant humming transformers, the poured-concrete spillways, and the prim unfolding suburbia, complete with schools, for dam employees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming Anarchy] Reference

Displayed in the back of the soaring concrete-floored gallery two floors below street level, the liquid wall has the clean, white, sculptural appeal of something from a movie that takes place in the future; it's made of an elegant poured-concrete grid and glass panels, each of which frames what looks like a semi-transparent garden hose that snakes up and down several times as you watch the display.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is New York Architecture Past Its Prime?] Reference

Henderson said he didn't have the knowledge or expertise to handle poured-concrete steps.    From Wordnik.com.  [SplicedFeed] Reference

"And this," he said, looking down at the poured-concrete, faux-brick flooring where we stood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

Set in the middle of nowhere, this poured-concrete maze is part Aztec pyramid, part minimum-security pen.    From Wordnik.com.  [NashvilleScene.com] Reference

To save money on building, carpenters first used this wood material to build the forms for early poured-concrete foundations.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference

Wet, late-winter winds are buffeting the stark poured-concrete bunker that is the downtown Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel on Queen Street West.    From Wordnik.com.  [Market News] Reference

Clean lines abound: on the poured-concrete floors and blond woods, the white Nelson pendant lamps, the exposed-brick walls ornamented with a few pieces of pottery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seattle Weekly | Complete Issue] Reference

A day or two later, my bound form was carried into an empty poured-concrete room in a complex somewhere in The Remote Tribal Areas Along the Border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and dumped on the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

Empty grandiose shells - the unfinished hotel looks like a giant waffle cone - tower over swamps, near brand-new poured-concrete government buildings alongside ramshackle corrugated-metal-roofed shacks.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

She was enchanted by the lack of interior walls and only one door-the bathroom's, which rolls open using wheels along a track-in the fourth-floor unit of the poured-concrete building that once was a Chevrolet dealership.    From Wordnik.com.  [News for Richmond Times-Dispatch] Reference

She was enchanted by the lack of interior walls and only one door -- the bathroom's, which rolls open using wheels along a track -- in the fourth-floor unit of the poured-concrete building that once was a Chevrolet dealership.    From Wordnik.com.  [News for Richmond Times-Dispatch] Reference

After lunch, he takes me to Back Bay to see an apartment complex that he offers as a model of urban redevelopment, a long, attractive, poured-concrete low-rise building on a business street with shops on the ground floor -- the modern equivalent of the apartments-above-storefront buildings that were common in northeastern and midwestern cities before the demolition crews arrived in the 60s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

… not a restoration but a modern edifice, a parabolic poured-concrete tent-shape peaked like a breaking wave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cock-a-doodle-doo] Reference

I'd rumble in, northbound, in my rattly Datsun station wagon, and I'd be breathless from the scale and intensity of urban overload, of all the flames over New Jersey and the poured-concrete entirety of the Turnpike, and the towers of the World Trade Center would loom out of the haze, just like the twin pyramid arcologies in the opening, and then I'd be in that theater, in the city, in the grungy, dense, chaos of the city, somewhere completely unlike my little log farmhouse in Scaggsville, watching that movie unfold, and it was magic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference