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How To Use rotunda In A Sentence

• Here the image is of a literal place, a location at Fawns: ‘an ancient rotunda, pillared and statued, nicked and roofed’, surrounded by ‘alleys… densely overarched with the climbing rose’.
• Visitors during the summer of 2002 may expect to see a new black-and-white marble floor in the rotunda beneath the dome.
• In the center of this Greek cross plan, he placed a rotunda surmounted by a low dome topped by a lantern.
• Like its predecessor, "The Lost Symbol" offers a mini-course in arcane historical detail (did you know that the Capitol once had an eternal flame burning beneath the floor under its rotunda?). Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
• Above this is a four-sided arched structure, and this is surmounted by a rotunda with Corinthian columns enclosing two statues.
• Upon entering the hall from the gallery of the rotunda, the viewer faced the elevated rostrum of the speaker at the south end, located under an arch that featured coffers filled with plaster rosettes.
• The picture galleries of the High Museum are treated as subsidiary spaces shunted off from the proportionally dominant, glass-paneled entry rotunda, which is flooded with daylight and unusable for the display of works that require careful conservation. The Big Rock Candy Mountain
• Some object to this new suit of clothes for the Rotunda, but I say phooey.
• Collocabatur in medio domûs emaculatæ odoribus Arabicis undique, lance rotunda pure superposita, ex diversis metallicis materiis fabrefacta; cujus in ambitu rotunditatis extremo elementorum viginti quatuor scriptiles formæ incisæ perite, dijungebantur spatiis examinate dimensis. Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
• That's when they put the casket in the rotunda and everybody comes to see him. RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE