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."

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • It ought to require that the White House rotunda be the only place at which the DNC or the president may accept large contributions, and that the floors of the House and Senate chambers be the only places an individual or PAC may give a large contribution to a member of Congress.

  • 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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