cathedral ceiling

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noun

a high ceiling formed by or suggesting an open-timbered roof.

a ceiling, as in a living room, higher than that of other rooms in a house.

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How to use cathedral ceiling in a sentence

In 1997, an earthquake in Assisi caused the collapse of the main cathedral and killed ten people.
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Here it is being performed by the Westminster Cathedral Choir.
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He led the packed cathedral in applause for Ramos and Liu and asked Bratton to bring a message to the men and women of the NYPD.
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Fourteen years on, the wooden stairs and ceiling are still charred, and the walls are studded with clusters of bullet holes.
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The floor-to-ceiling Texas flag, the single most imposing feature of the room, began to rise.
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The cathedral is the only Spanish parochial church; it cares for two thousand four hundred souls.
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Both of the orator's hands swung upward and outward, and he looked intently at the ceiling.
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From above, through the ceiling, came the vibration of some machine at work, and the machine might have been the loom of time.
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Father Fochel of the Cathedral had attempted to explain it; but he had not done so to her satisfaction.
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They have an old Cathedral here (now Presbyterian) of which the citizens seem quite proud, I can't perceive why.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley