Example sentences for: edifice

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

  • The Arabs did not build the "inspired dream palace of their national thoughts" that Lawrence sought to give them; they tried to build a dream palace of their own, "an intellectual edifice" influenced by the West but not of the West.

  • Also worth a visit is the beautiful Santa Barbara County Courthouse — a magnificent Spanish-Moorish–style edifice dating from 1927.

  • Continue along Duke of Kent Street and you will come to the Unfinished Church, an elegant edifice originally begun in the 1870s when St. Peter’s Church was badly damaged by a storm and thought to be beyond repair.

  • The turreted edifice set down in the Bow River Valley has something of the fairytale castles of Ludwig of Bavaria.

  • The town’s most venerable edifice is the 12th-century Romanesque basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.


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