Example Sentences

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Old Boer Senators leaned forward, hand behind ear in order that not one word of the Prince's English should escape their Dutch-hardened tympanums.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week he had the thrill of seeing his bellowing affect not just the ear of some baffled layman but the tympanums of that knowing politician, the Head of the Democratic Party.

From Time Magazine Archive

The masons put together the pieces of the rose window and installed the tympanums and voussoirs over the doors.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay

As seen from within, it is faced alternately by four tympanums and four turrets.

From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.

The tympanums, as well as the windows between them, and the turrets are flanked by a series of Romanesque columns.

From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.