sheet glass
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sheet glass
First recorded in 1795–1805
Example Sentences
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THE presidential palace in Ankara is a 1,150-room modern fortress of stone pillars and sheet glass, completed for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2015 at an official cost of $615m.
From Economist ● Aug. 25, 2016
He worked with sheet glass and embedded glass slabs in concrete and other substrates, a technique called dalle de verre.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2015
Architects took mass-produced sheet glass and combined it with structural steel to produce skyscrapers that invented a new city life.
From The Guardian ● May 24, 2013
Then comes the industrial sheet glass, the theatrical balconies and monumental staircase.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2012
For this purpose a bit of sheet glass broken so as to leave a curved edge is very useful, and the ebonite is then scraped like a cricket bat.
From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard
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