Example sentences for: cornices

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

  • Doors, niches, struts, and cornices are superbly decorated, yet the temple and compound retain a human dimension and are not overwhelming.

  • 3 m (37 ft) high, its columns, beams, and cornices are carved with a menagerie of dragons, phoenixes, lions, and tigers in a field of clouds, peonies, Chinese sages, and angels, all gilded and painted in red, gold, blue, and green.

  • On a narrow street in the old Jewish quarter you gaze upward at the cornices and see, of all creatures, the Three Musketeers, direct from the pages of Alexandre Dumas.

  • These were the homes of artisans, not Brahmins, and are less precious, devoid of cornices and fancy wrought iron.


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