Example sentences for: buttresses

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

  • 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.

  • (The entertainment culture also buttresses this view.)

  • Wander high above the city turmoil under the flying buttresses and around the statues (2,245 in all) and forest of pinnacles (135), up to the roof-ridge for an unbeatable view of the city.

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

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


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