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  • Some of the guards entered the forest of pillars encompassing the colonnade.†  (source)
    colonnade = a series of regularly spaced columns -- typically covered by a roof
  • It had forty rooms and a double colonnade of gleaming white marble columns that wrapped around all four sides.†  (source)
  • "What pays for all this?" he asked Crake, as they passed the state-of-the-art Luxuries Mall — marble everywhere, colonnades, cafés, ferns, takeout booths, roller-skating path, juice bars, a self-energizing gym where running on the treadmill kept the light bulbs going, Roman-look fountains with nymphs and sea-gods.†  (source)
    colonnades = pathways consisting of a series of regularly spaced columns -- typically covered by a roof
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  • She ran down a shadowy colonnade and pressed herself against a wall to catch her breath.†  (source)
    colonnade = a series of regularly spaced columns -- typically covered by a roof
  • It wasn't easy, even though I'd been to visit my grandfather countless times growing up, because each house looked like the next: squat and boxy with minor variations, trimmed with aluminum siding or dark seventies wood, or fronted by plaster colonnades that seemed almost delusionally aspirational.†  (source)
    colonnades = pathways consisting of a series of regularly spaced columns -- typically covered by a roof
  • In the broad, covered corridor—the colonnaded kuthambalam abutting the heart of the temple where the Blue God lived with his flute, the drummers drummed and the dancers danced, their colors turning slowly in the night.†  (source)
    colonnaded = made a structure comprised of a series of regularly spaced columns -- typically covered by a roof
  • Do you see those two men over there under the colonnade?†  (source)
    colonnade = a series of regularly spaced columns -- typically covered by a roof
  • The palace itself stretched out on either side of him—a honeycomb of halls and tunnels, balconies, colonnades, and cavernous rooms carved into the sandstone cliffs, all designed for the wind to blow through and make as much noise as possible.†  (source)
    colonnades = pathways consisting of a series of regularly spaced columns -- typically covered by a roof
  • The summons required Socrates to appear before the legal magistrate, or King Archon, in a colonnaded building in central Athens called the Royal Stoa to answer charges of impiety and corrupting the youth.†  (source)
    colonnaded = made a structure comprised of a series of regularly spaced columns -- typically covered by a roof
  • We'd worked out the timing ahead of time and I was waiting for him on Renaissance V, standing back in the shadows of the colonnade.†  (source)
    colonnade = a series of regularly spaced columns -- typically covered by a roof
  • There were straight rows of trees—colonnades—growing out of the seedbed of trees that had fallen two hundred years before and sunk and become the earth itself.†  (source)
    colonnades = pathways consisting of a series of regularly spaced columns -- typically covered by a roof
  • FEDERAL HALL, where Congress met, was a handsomely proportioned stone building at the junction of Broad and Wall Streets distinguished by its glassy cupola and colonnaded front balcony.†  (source)
    colonnaded = made a structure comprised of a series of regularly spaced columns -- typically covered by a roof
  • He jogged down the long hallway, illuminated brightly by a colonnade of chandeliers.†  (source)
    colonnade = a series of regularly spaced columns -- typically covered by a roof
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