Sample Sentences for
edifice
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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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    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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    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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    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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    One does not make love to a minor religious edifice.†  (source)
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    Chicago is not hopelessly prostrate....The number of temporary wooden buildings erected for the accommodation of business in the South Division had increased from the hundred or so we saw there two weeks after the fire, to several thousands, and the Lake front and some of the streets are literally lined with these structures, and in some localities trade is active....Some large permanent brick edifices have already been reared on the scene of the ruins, and many others are in the process of erection...†  (source)
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