cornicein a sentence
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It is inscribed on the school building's cornice.cornice = a decorative border along the top of a building's exterior wall
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A decorative, four-inch cornice runs around the room's high ceilings.cornice = decorative molding between the ceiling and the top of a wall
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adobe-colored concrete trimmed with a red brick cornice†
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decided to scale his building to the proportions of the square's older Georgian buildings, conform to surrounding heights and match cornice lines†
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Cornices as airy as meringue jutted over voids a mile deep. (source)Cornices = hardened snow that hangs over a ridge or precipice
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...found themselves blinking in the light of an enormous room, where lamps glowed and a fire roared on the hearth and both were reflected from the gilding of roof and cornice. (source)cornice = a decorative molding between the ceiling and the top of a wall
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A single billboard, mounted on the cornice of the building across the alley, dominates the view; its surface gleams three yards beyond the glass.† (source)
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Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan, I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs, and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. (source)cornices = decorative borders along the top of building walls
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A mile farther we had to bow or heads under corniced elliptic arches in the romanesque style; and massive pillars standing out from the wall bent under the spring of the vault that rested heavily upon them.† (source)
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The walls and ceilings were peppermint, and here and there, you'd see a bit of fishing net, or a rotted piece from a boat stuck up high near the cornicing.† (source)
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Mr Farraday had commenced the tour at the top of the house, and by the time he had brought his guests down to inspect the magnificence of the ground-floor rooms, he seemed to be on an elevated plane, pointing out details on cornicings and window frames, and describing with some flourish 'what the English lords used to do' in each room.† (source)
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They were on a cornice, a thin overhanging crust of snow which her father said was safe.† (source)
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I was impressed by the aimlessness and sprawl of it, its cornices and columns, the elaborate ironwork door with its sense of a stage set, like a house from one of the Telemundo soap operas the doormen always had going in the package room.† (source)
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The uppermost shank of Everest's Southeast Ridge is a slender, heavily corniced fin of rock and wind-scoured snow that snakes for a quarter mile between the summit and a subordinate pinnacle known as the South Summit.† (source)
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Her building has a crumbling stoop, a terra cotta—colored facade with a gaudy green cornice.† (source)
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Behind the buildings a mass of trees extended into the distance, punctuated by steeples, cornices, rooftops, and cupolas.† (source)
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