Example sentences for: buttresses

How can you use “buttresses” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Martin buttresses his case with one of the poorest spokesmen imaginable: Vyacheslav Molotov, Stalin's foreign minister.

  • Densely packed buttresses facing seaward create an extraordinary effect of power and beauty, especially when they blaze like gold in the setting sun and cast their reflection in the pool below.

  • Try to arrive as the chapel opens or at sunset (see page 39) and make your way to the upper level, where light blazes in through 15 stained-glass windows separated by buttresses so slim that there seems to be no wall at all.

  • Climb to the roof for an extraordinary view of the carved stone tracery and flying buttresses.

  • (The entertainment culture also buttresses this view.)


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