Sample Sentences for
cornice
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cornice as in:  a decorative cornice

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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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    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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    ...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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    They were on a cornice, a thin overhanging crust of snow which her father said was safe.†  (source)
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    Roguish fauns and naked nymphs peeked down at Billy from festooned cornices.†  (source)
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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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    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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    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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    Then I hop-climbed from window ledge to cornice up the white marble facade, channeling my inner Hulk until I reached the top.†  (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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    My dad would have loved it—Second Empire architecture: mansard roof, dormer windows, square tower, decorative brackets and molded cornice.†  (source)
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cornice as in:  snow cornice

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The snow cornice collapsed under its own weight.
cornice = hardened snow that hangs over a ridge or precipice
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    When Lopsang saw that Hansen was faltering, he held up his own descent long enough to make sure Doug and Rob made it safely across a dangerously corniced area just below the top.  (source)
    corniced = with wind-built snow beyond solid ground so it is not safe to walk upon
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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)
    corniced = with overhanging wind-built snow
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    Rendered dumb with awe and fatigue, I took some photos, then sat down wit Biedleman, and Anatoli Boukreev to wait for the Sherpas to fix ropes along the spectacularly corniced summit ridge.  (source)
    corniced = with wind-built snow overhangs
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Just don't walk off any cornices.  (source)
cornices = wind-built snow that hangs beyond solid ground
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