Example Sentences

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With little to lose, he changed his plans, creating a monumental structure layered with imposing arcades, colonnades and flanking pavilions, crowned with a dome and a pedimented tower.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2023

The logo of the Internet Archive is a white, pedimented Greek temple.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 19, 2015

The marching rows of doric columns, pedimented porticoes and dentilled cornices that define these imposing ranks of wedding-cake mansions have been joined by an unlikely addition to the classical architectural vocabulary.

From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2012

For many years the last great private U. S. art collection has hung on the walls of Lynnewood Hall, a chill, pedimented mansion in Elkins Park, Philadelphia suburb.

From Time Magazine Archive

He notes the pedimented window lintels, the Doric pilasters, the bracketed entablature, the black cruciform paneled door.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri