Example sentences for: ceilings

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

  • Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770), the last of the great Venetian artists--those masters of color and suave worldliness--was the supreme painter of ceilings and skies.

  • The plaster ceilings here date from 1678 and depict angels carrying the symbols of royal power: crown, scepter, sword, and wreath of laurel leaves.

  • In Italy pignattas were hung from the ceilings during masquerade balls.

  • An article argues that projected budget surpluses rest on the shaky assumption that Congress will maintain budget ceilings by slicing popular domestic programs.

  • Critics complain that Los Angeles architect Barton Myers' postmodern building, consisting of concert halls and theaters, looks like a "cineplex" (Mark Swed, the Los Angeles Times ), with interiors that verge on kitsch (examples of overkill: steel rods poking out of ceilings; floors inlaid with colored stones).


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