Sample Sentences foredifice (editor-reviewed)
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The corporation was housed in an imposing edifice.edifice = a building -- especially a large one
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She is determined to defeat the bill and tear down the entire edifice of free trade treaties.edifice = framework
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Their offices are housed in an imposing edifice.edifice = building
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Dad had had his car written off by an uninsured driver two years previously, and somehow this had been enough for the whole teetering edifice that was my parents' finances to finally collapse. (source)edifice = framework
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…across the harbour, stands a spacious edifice of brick. (source)edifice = building
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There were rumblings from the beatniks and early hippies at this time about "the system" and the square intellectualism that supported it, but hardly anyone guessed how deeply the whole edifice would be brought into doubt. (source)edifice = conceptual framework
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The chapel would be closing soon, and as Langdon pulled open the door, a warm puff of air escaped, as if the ancient edifice were heaving a weary sigh at the end of a long day. (source)edifice = building
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…the general belief among archaeologists, that the first pyramids were founded for astronomical purposes: a theory singularly supported by the peculiar stair-like formation of all four sides of those edifices; (source)edifices = structures
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He saw a little glow ahead of him, and then without interval a tall flame leaped up in the dark with a crackling roar, and a tall edifice of fire lighted the pathway. (source)edifice = framework
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Thus a relatively small population was left to wander among what remained of the majestic edifices of the city's former glory.† (source)
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That edifice is colossal. (source)edifice = building
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Here is the essence of mankind's creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but the words which fertilize new concepts like spermatazoa attacking an ovum.† (source)
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Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.† (source)
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But this was often private; I was left for an hour haunting the carved edifices of Notre-Dame, or sitting at the edge of a park in the carriage.† (source)
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It was while the two were in midair, their hands about to meet, that lightning struck the main pole and sizzled down the guy wires, filling the air with a blue radiance that Harry Avalon must certainly have seen through the cloth of his blindfold as the tent buckled and the edifice toppled him forward, the swing continuing and not returning in its sweep, and Harry going down, down into the crowd with his last thought, perhaps, just a prickle of surprise at his empty hands.† (source)
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We're gliding on the narrow two-lane road toward the old part of the village, the edifices of the dark brick town fire station and the turreted stone post office (once a mill) nobly guarding the entrance.† (source)
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