Example sentences for: niches

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

  • More than 1,300 grottoes were constructed, as well as 2,100 niches and nearly 100,000 statues.

  • Its singular main hall consists of a square stone building 71⁄2 m (25 ft) high, its outside walls decorated with one thousand niches, each containing an engraved Buddha.

  • The collection covers all aspects of Coptic art and worship, from vestments, tapestries, early handwritten bibles, and painted icons, to ornate stone niches and wood-carved ceilings taken from churches all across Egypt.

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

  • Bright coronas (wreaths) for cemetery grave markers with built-in nichos (niches) for saints and photos result in glorious displays of decorative art.


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