Example Sentences

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"Rather attractive... with Atlases supporting enormous mock columns and a rather luxurious intimacy about the atmosphere".

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2022

Atop massive half-columns, 38 Atlases, each 25 feet tall and carved from limestone, seemingly held up the architrave — the main beam that rests on the capitals of columns — with their bent arms.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2020

Could Lou or one of the other Atlases take his title?

From The Guardian • Nov. 6, 2015

The earlier generation of nuclear missiles - the mere dozens of Titans and the Atlases - were massive, expensive to maintain, volatile because of their liquid fuel and in need of constant security, Heefner said.

From Washington Times • Oct. 17, 2015

"They are as superior to all School Atlases within our knowledge, as were the larger works of the same Author in advance of those that preceded them."

From Cattle and Cattle-breeders by M'Combie, William