temple
noun
an edifice or place dedicated to the service or worship of a deity or deities.
templelike
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a word derived from
temple.
Example Sentences
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Folded into a green hillside that rises above the busy artery of Via Nomentana, the circular templelike tomb of the daughter of Rome’s first Christian emperor preserves a mosaic cycle of astonishing exuberance and delicacy.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2018
The West Hollywood concept boutique with its templelike entrance balances designer brands such as Chanel and Gucci with an L.A. grunge aesthetic in emerging labels such as Fear of God, Enfants Riches Déprimés and Mike Amiri.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2016
Its templelike facade, with a stone pediment and columns, is so stately that from across the street I almost mistook it for a colonial seat of legislature like Federal Hall on Wall Street.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2015
Sometimes before a night's fighting, the militias would assemble in one of their strange churches with templelike, turned-up roofs and bulbous bell towers, from which a lookout kept watch.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Pedagogue's space lighter settled to the plaza gently, some fifty yards from the ornately decorated pyramid which stretched up several hundred feet and was topped by a small templelike building.
From Adaptation by John Schoenherr
