EDIFICE in a Sentence
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27 example sentences for EDIFICE, such as:
1. A sad silence was upon the little guarding edifice.
2. Hence the edifice bore the name of the Gorbeau house.
3. A subterranean edifice erected in common by all the miserable.
4. From the edifice a tall leaning tower of smoke went far into the sky.
5. The town hall is the only edifice surviving from the fifteenth century.
2. Hence the edifice bore the name of the Gorbeau house.
3. A subterranean edifice erected in common by all the miserable.
4. From the edifice a tall leaning tower of smoke went far into the sky.
5. The town hall is the only edifice surviving from the fifteenth century.
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Meanings and Examples of EDIFICE
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edifice
n. a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1 The staircase led to a very vast edifice which resembled a shed which had been converted into a house.
2 Hence the edifice bore the name of the Gorbeau house.
3 This song proceeded from the gloomy edifice which towered above the garden.
4 Just after he had turned the inner angle of the edifice, he observed that he was coming to some arched windows, where he perceived a light.
5 It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called the Convent of the Bernardines of the Perpetual Adoration.
6 Few strangers visited this edifice, no passer-by looked at it.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
7 A subterranean edifice erected in common by all the miserable.
8 Misuse of public funds, waste and corruption had reached such proportions during his administration that the edifice was toppling of its own weight.
9 These children of the woods stood together for several moments pointing at the crumbling edifice, and conversing in the unintelligible language of their tribe.
10 A sad silence was upon the little guarding edifice.
11 From the edifice a tall leaning tower of smoke went far into the sky.
12 The wooden edifice itself had dark-grey walls and a red-gabled roof, for it was a mansion of the kind which Russia builds for her military settlers and for German colonists.
13 They have a marvellous edifice of that pattern which endures for ever--the ant-heap.
14 He was delighted at the unexpected rapidity of his pupil's progress, but could not abandon the edifice of argument he had laboriously constructed.
15 On the one hand there is fear and regret for the loss of the whole edifice constructed through the ages, on the other is the passion for destruction.
Example Sentence:
1 The town hall is the only edifice surviving from the fifteenth century.
2 The primary edifice, Mandeville Center, is about as inviting as a concrete bunker.
3 To him this edifice is a beautiful structure, although it will never be finished.
4 But the only way to “complete” the game and earn the ultimate Tower rating, is to build an actual cathedral into the edifice and then wait for someone to get married there.
5 They complain that the monstrous edifices interfere with television reception.