Example sentences for: cone-shaped

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

  • Many dispute the modern scientific tests that have proven it to be a medieval fabrication, and crowds of faithful and merely curious still visit its black marble chapel, a masterpiece of Guarini’s High Baroque, with its cone-shaped, six-tiered dome formed by a web of intersecting arches that rise to a 12-pointed star.

  • The Romanesque façade makes a striking contrast with the eight Byzantine cupolas and two minaret-like towers around a central Gothic cone-shaped dome, reminiscent of Venice’s Basilica San Marco.

  • Prehistoric man dotted the island with his mysterious cone-shaped nuraghi houses and watchtowers before it was colonized by Cretans, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, and Romans.

  • This agricultural town is the center of Puglia’s famous trulli, the white-washed cone-shaped houses with ruddy or gray dry-stone roofs dotting the landscape like giant spinning tops turned upside down.

  • As the coast flattens out, a town of whitewashed houses atop a rocky, cone-shaped hill comes into view.


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