surmounted

How To Use surmounted In A Sentence

• The flag has a horizontal red stripe on top, and a wider white stripe with a gold crown surmounted by seven stars in the middle.
• Kelvin surmounted this problem by running a single wire along his machine that went around each wheel, so that the combined effects of all wheels would be represented by the motion at the end of the wire.
• The twelve-panel front door is surmounted with a transom window and framed by fluted pilasters supporting an open pediment.
• The coffin was palled with a square of rusty black velvet, whence all the pile had long been worn, and which the soaking rain now helped age to embrown and make flabby; a standard cross was borne by an ecclesiastical official, who had on a quadrangular cap surmounted by a centre tuft; two priests followed, sheltered by umbrellas, their sacerdotal garments dabbled and draggled with mud, and showing thick-shod feet beneath the dingy serge and lawn that flapped above them, as they came along at a smart pace, suggestive of anything but solemnity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
• The opening at one end of the shrine is closed not by the paneled doors characteristic of temples but by a pair of low gates carved to represent wickerwork and surmounted by a row of inverted dentils.
• The bishop is represented as in the act of benediction, with a pastoral staff, and in full pontificals; his head is shown as resting on a cushion, and is surmounted by a trefoil arch with a crocketed gable, and a censer-bearing angel on each side. Ely Cathedral
• The windows are surmounted by rusticated wooden jack arches with superimposed keystones, and a heavy modillion cornice crowns the bold Georgian proportions of the facade.
• There are still a few technical problems/obstacles/hurdles to be surmounted before the product can be put on sale to the public.
• In the center of this Greek cross plan, he placed a rotunda surmounted by a low dome topped by a lantern.
• Above this is a four-sided arched structure, and this is surmounted by a rotunda with Corinthian columns enclosing two statues.