Edifices in example sentence

The amusingly varied crests of these beautiful edifices were the product of the same art as the simple roofs which they overshot, and were, actually, only a multiplication of the square or the cube of the same geometrical figure.

More example sentences with word edifices

But more importantly, they discovered edifices down there that they did not understand.

The idea was to save the financial system from having to deal with safely dismantling the impossibly complex contractual edifices – which did not allow for the possibility of systemic collapse – that it had constructed.

In most conflicts, prisoners' rights are routinely debased, torture is commonplace, and the inviolability of cultural and religious edifices is ignored.

A famous developer with his name on all sorts of edifices and a personal fortune, he had been the star of a long-running prime-time “reality” show – a lodestone of US popular culture.

All example sentences