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Example sentences for: edifice

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Still, the huge basilica of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, a huge Byzantine-style church enveloping the original Mother Church is an amazing edifice.
Louis XIII had hoped to turn his favorite hunting ground into a modest retirement home, but his son and heir made it the center of a universe, proclaiming his own grandeur in an edifice of brick, marble, gilt, and crystal.
In addition, notes the Journal , creating a huge full-service financial edifice flies in the face of the trend toward discount brokerage firms and cheap on-line trading.
Relying on a confidential consultant's report, the Washington Post goes with an exclusive, claiming that the newest federal edifice in Washington, D.C., the Ronald Reagan building, is quite vulnerable to terrorist attack.
If the US thus, in the best Hollywood tradition, is to shoot from the hip, why not push the whole UN edifice into the Atlantic Ocean?"