Example sentences for: edifice

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

  • The Old Testament figures of Moses and Aaron were found depicted on gable stones in the original building and were set into the wall of the new edifice.

  • 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.

  • Just down the hill, off Rua Galeria near the river, is the beautiful 16th-century Igreja da Misericórdia (Church of Mercy), a spectacular Renaissance edifice.

  • Critics anoint Los Angeles architect Frank Gehry's sprawling, postmodern titanium-and-stone edifice "one of the greatest buildings of the twentieth century" (Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker ). (Click here for a photo.)

  • Just down the hill, off Rua Galeria near the river, is the beautiful 16th-century Igreja da Misericórdia (Church of Mercy), a spectacular Renaissance edifice with a carved portico.


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