Example sentences for: canopy

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

  • Bronze that once embellished the entrance was carted away and recycled as Bernini’s canopy for the high altar in St. Peter’s.

  • In these countries, a destructive cycle of human behavior begins with land-clearing and burning for farming, logging, mining, road-building, and other uses that open gaps in the rainforest's canopy cover.

  • Hunter S. Thompson once said of Circus Circus, the casino where craps players and flying trapeze artists mingle beneath a billowing canopy, that it was what hepcats all over the world would be doing on Saturday night if the Germans had won World War II.

  • Later, for the second time, votive candles sparked a fire which consumed a canopy tent, bouquets, scraps of poetry and stuffed bears."

  • The wrought-iron Crown of Thorns canopy over the high altar (called the Baldachino) was added by the Catalan modernista architect Antoni Gaudí at the beginning of the 20th century.


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