There was a foot-thick concrete wall immediately to my right, and I had to turn my head to the left to look into the room.

Enormous gnarly banyan roots curled through foot-thick walls; fat tree trunks burst energetically through solid stone floors that had been built in the 12th century.

Ice was hauled out of the lake each winter and stored within the foot-thick walls of the icehouse.

Above the wheels, some 16 feet up, a platform supports the temple chambers, 30 feet high with 20 foot-thick walls.

Moldings were hand cut; interior wood shutters fold into the foot-thick walls (following Thomas Jefferson's design for Monticello).

I tested the foot-thick outer walls and the air locks for leaks, then made sure the air purifier worked.

The Oakwood Mausoleum was built to the very highest standards with foot-thick walls of concrete covered by hand cut gray Vermont marble.

At sunrise one day last week, shortly after he had finished his early prayers, a bulldozer tore into the mosque's foot-thick walls.

Courtesy and accommodation are as much a selling feature of this building as the hand-laid herringbone teak floors or the foot-thick soundproof walls.

If the bivalves establish that beachhead, they can easily choke the system's subterranean aqueducts with foot-thick walls of shellfish.