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How to use pediments in a sentence

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These somewhat squat structures of ebonized wood, each with a tiered base resting on four circular pad feet, are crowned by elaborate pediments.
On either side of the mahogany headboard and footboard are columns with brass capitals supporting pediments.
Greek temple pediments were stripped bare and the sculpture set into the pediments of temples in Rome.
The stage was a long oval, with strange bronze horns, pediments, and clamshells decorating it.
Like the great house, its windows were surmounted by alternating triangular and rounded pediments.
The principal doorways of both buildings are framed by pilasters and display graceful semicircular fanlights crowned with open pediments.
I've never seen so many colonnades, entablatures, pediments, porticos, coffered ceilings and statues adorning so many structures.
I found two hero stones influenced by classical art, as good as any of the pediments in Halebid, while two others were folkish.
All the houses will have a traditional look with curved timber framed windows, decorative roof detail and over-door pediments.
With an original oak floor, this area also features a carved oak ceiling rose, pediments, cornices and architraves.
He was portrayed standing under a tabernacled canopy consisting of three arches slightly pointed, surmounted by crocketed pediments.
The prevailing style of the roughly 3,800 neighboring houses features large gables and verandas, with porticos, pediments, and glossy interiors.
Above the doorways, cherubs cluster around rich pediments and everywhere there is the sparkle of freshly-applied 24-carat gilding.
There's ornament in columns and cornices, rustication and pilasters, urns, anthemia, and pediments, with temples and colonnades high in the sky, topped by spires and finials.
Like the pediments, the metopes include local elements and offered a model of heroic behavior to the ancient viewer, especially to Olympic athletes.
The resulting amalgamation of sleek new blocks and bustling malls is worlds away from the conventional image of porticoes, pediments and municipal chest puffing.
The upper windows are of a restrained Classical form, with pediments set on columns, but are blind and contain niches.
This section ends in superscaled square-topped pediments, another Blum trademark.
The Caryatid from the Erechtheion stood in the centre, while most pieces from the east and west pediments were evenly displayed in a semi-circle around it.
The composition of groups of figures in reliefs and on pediments combined complexity and harmony in a way that had a permanent influence on Western art.
Examples from Classical Literature
This is also true of the stylobate, or substructure of a colonnade, and of pediments and other features.
Which of you can have houses or columns or extensive pediments on top of his tiled roof?
In one of the pediments was a gigantomachy, of which some fragments have been recovered.
From this central square of four pediments extends right and left one long colonnade, or dromos.
Apollo was there, but broken and buried in earth with the other people of the pediments.
This attic is panelled, and on it stand obelisk-bearing pedestals, one above each column, and between them pediments of strapwork.
Then they uncovered the fallen statues of the pediments of Zeus' temple.
The pediments and metopes are explained more fully than the friezes but the account is incomplete, suggestive more than informative.
The black shadows of the pediments between each window, alternating with the strips of light, heightened the wan glare of the moonshine on the floor.
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