roundhouse
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He left the Air Force in 1962 and set up a martial arts studio in Los Angeles, finding his calling in teaching and delivering roundhouse kicks.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
Encircling the footprint of each roundhouse were "middens," haloes of rubbish dumped from the stilt village above, included broken pots, butchered animal bone, and "coprolites" or fossilised faeces.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
In the third quarter, he picked off a Washington pass and went in for an uncontested roundhouse dunk.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
Nellie Wilson works part-time weaving together hazel branches to build the walls and roof of a replica Iron Age roundhouse.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2023
He heard the engines puffing and snorting by the roundhouse and the crash of freight cars being assembled.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Further samples in the coming months will determine if the cistern dates back to the same period as the roundhouses.
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2026
If an internal fire took hold in one of the roundhouses, it would spread between the tightknit structures within minutes.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
The inhabitants lived in a clutch of thatched roundhouses built on wooden stilts above a channel of the River Nene, which empties into the North Sea.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
These fortified roundhouses, made with with dry stone walls, were built in the period from 100 BC to 100 AD, and it’s thought Dun Carloway probably sprang up in the 1st century AD.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2017
Paris is not far; we pass the freight-depots, by the roundhouses where the engines roar in red vapor, getting up steam; the train stops; they take up the tickets.
From Sac-Au-Dos 1907 by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
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