Sample Sentences forcupola (editor-reviewed)
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Possibly the most famous cupola is that at Saint Peter's Cathedral at the Vatican.cupola = an architectural feature at the top of a roof, usually dome-shaped and opened by windows or columns
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From the outside the buildings were reticent, severe straight lines of red brick or white clapboard, with shutters standing sentinel beside each window, and a few unassuming white cupolas placed here and there on the roofs because they were expected and not pretty, like Pilgrim bonnets. (source)cupolas = an architectural feature at the top of a roof with a smallish opening that provides light or ventilation
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The moon shone on the white cupola of the seminary across the road -- lovely view, good place to see the fight. (source)cupola = an architectural feature at the top of a roof, usually dome-shaped and opened by windows or columns
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It was housed in a cupola atop a firehouse across the street from Billy's office.† (source)
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The porch wrapped around an old house on a hill just outside Clanton, with a view of the town below and the courthouse cupola square in the middle.† (source)
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The church turned out to be a small, unassuming white cube topped with more of a cupola than a steeple, squeezed between a ma-and-pa grocery store and a house already decorated to the nines for Halloween.† (source)
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When at last they reached the town square and the tall white cupola of the city hall loomed up, she made her thanks, climbed down from the wagon and watched the country woman drive off.† (source)
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The sky was the very blue that the cupolas of St. Basil's had been painted for.† (source)
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There is a white steepled Congregational church, a stone courthouse with an adjoining jail, a cupolaed public library, a wooden well from which Paul Revere is rumored to have drunk.† (source)
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They left the high-road, by a well-remembered lane, and soon approached a mansion of dull red brick, with a little weathercock-surmounted cupola, on the roof, and a bell hanging in it.† (source)
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Rain fell softly on town cupolas, chuckled from rainspouts, and spoke in strange subterranean tongues beneath the windows where Jim and Will knew fitful dreams, slipping out of one, trying another for size, but finding all cut from the same dark, mouldered cloth.† (source)
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A great space surrounded by tall ugly houses, with an ugly church at the corner and a nondescript ugly cupolaed building at my back; the roadway thronged with a sweltering and excited crowd, dominated by omnibuses crowded with spectators.† (source)
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It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend's quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre, once crowded with eager students and now lying gaunt and silent, the tables laden with chemical apparatus, the floor strewn with crates and littered with packing straw, and the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola.† (source)
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We aren't going to the river though, we won't see the little cupolas on the buildings down that way, white with blue and gold trim, such chaste gaiety.† (source)
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In Mellen, Trudy parked the truck in front of the cupolaed town hall and the three of them followed the arrows painted on the hallway until they reached the sheriff's office.† (source)
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He sees himself staring up at the clock and the roof balustrade and the ornate stone cupola.† (source)
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