Example sentences for: rotunda

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

  • He says "I would do anything short of lighting myself on fire in the Capitol rotunda to stop gambling."

  • 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.

  • The building’s Greco-Romanesque rotunda contrasts with the technological wizardry inside the Exploratorium — a modern hands-on science museum with changing exhibits that feature all kinds of natural phenomena.

  • Designed as a belvedere for Cardinal Capra in 1567, it’s an exquisite piece of applied geometry, a domed rotunda set in a square surrounded on all four sides by simple Ionic-columned porticoes.

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


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