Example sentences for: rotunda

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

  • Its tholos (columned rotunda) is set in a beautiful wooded lot with the sanctuary on the hillside behind.

  • The caskets of the two murdered Capitol guards will be displayed all day Tuesday in the Capitol Rotunda, where the President and Vice President will pay tribute to the men.

  • It seems that one morning in 1965, the University of Virginia awoke to discover a cow perched on the dome of the school's Rotunda, fifty feet above the ground.

  • Beneath the formidable Gothic rotunda, you’ll see an imperial, almost goddess-like marble statue of Victoria surrounded by more mortal early Canadian Prime Ministers.

  • In the great dome’s interior rotunda, painter George Southwell’s murals illustrate the four virtues that “made” British Columbia: Courage, as shown by George Vancouver confronting the Spanish at Nootka Sound in 1792; Spirit of Enterprise, with James Douglas establishing Fort Victoria for the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1842; Work, by those who had to build the Fort; and Justice, meted out to the unruly mob engaged in the 1858 gold rush.


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