How to Use Gothic in a Sentence

Gothic

noun
  • Many Gothic buildings have been a work in progress for centuries.
    Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 14 July 2023
  • The vaulted ceiling of the below-street-level dining room echoes the Gothic roof of Notre Dame, just across the river.
    Ellie Pithers, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The 5,700-square-foot main house is constructed of brick in a Gothic Revival style and has a huge circular driveway in front.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Episode five is almost like a stand-alone film — Southern Gothic horror.
    Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
  • That was the day Gothic Summer, the Veronicas’ sixth studio album, was born.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Frailty is a sleeper gem that puts a Southern Gothic spin on biblical horror and the terror of a cruel and fickle God.
    Megan McCluskey, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The main structure, with its castellated tower, turrets, and Gothic windows, is not short on charm.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2023
  • This cathedral is at the heart of the Gothic Quarter, and its beautiful architecture dates back to the 13th century.
    Jamie Ditaranto, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 2023
  • Layering elements of both Western and Gothic styles works well for this trend.
    Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Recently, workers wrapped up a year-long project to install 438 solar panels on the English Gothic church’s roof.
    Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
  • But Anderson seemed to find humor in Gothic furniture, too — in its Baroque frippery, its weirdness.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The French artist’s 15th-century bronze sculpture, on view at the Frick Madison, is a Gothic, almost abstract creation with a serenely enigmatic air.
    Colin Eisler, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2023
  • But even Poe superfans probably couldn’t spot all the references — because there are dozens scattered throughout the show’s eight Gothic episodes.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The little Leu offers perhaps the most spectacular view of Basel’s Gothic Münster available from any vantage point.
    Sue Wunder, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Glasgow: Take in Gothic architecture, green riverside walks and a global banquet in Scotland’s largest city.
    Laurence Blair, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • France then embarked on a nearly $900 million refurbishment of the Gothic sanctuary that’s soon nearing an end.
    Christian Wienberg, Fortune Europe, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Are there works of art that, like American Gothic does for Jack, evoke certain personal memories or identities for you?
    Andrew Ridker, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The city’s historic center is a collection of medieval, Baroque, Gothic, and neo-Classical buildings, many with a through-line of local granite that continues into the present day.
    Sara Clemence Richard Pedaline, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Five years prior, the storied French Gothic castle perched high on Sunset Boulevard had changed hands, coming under new ownership.
    Myriam Gurba, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The festival kicks off with a celebration of Gothic literature in an intimate show at Swan Dive.
    oregonlive, 6 Apr. 2023
  • This affordable option isn’t scarce on luxury: There’s down duvets, an onsite bistro, and sweeping views of the adjacent Gothic Quarter.
    Lindsay Tigar, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2023
  • Tyrol is full of other surprises, too, from Gothic castles to century-old bakeries.
    Thomas Rogers, Travel + Leisure, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Two physicists—one high and thus mesmerized, the other terrified—watch the phenomenon from a Gothic courtyard in Oxford, England.
    Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Due to the complexity of the intersecting processes that drive sublimation, the team set up more than 100 instruments in an alpine meadow just south of Gothic known as Kettle Ponds.
    WIRED, 29 July 2023
  • Yale’s campus was substantially rebuilt in the early 1930s in Academy Gothic style.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 8 Feb. 2024
  • On a chilly, humid morning, Mr. Macron donned a hard hat and took a three-minute elevator ride to visit a new spire that is nearing completion atop the famed Gothic edifice that was ravaged by a devastating fire in April 2019.
    Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Tan then did some extensive research herself for the role, finding inspiration beyond the Gothic overtones of the original story.
    Jevon Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • His preferred method of rain protection came in the form of a sweeping gray hooded cloak, which, given the Gothic setting, seemed sartorially appropriate.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Attention to detail starts outside the home, where golden fleur-de-lis accent the wrought iron fencing and a graphic black-and-white tile design greets you at the entrance, alongside a door knob display that features a Gothic Revival-like engraving.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The building was a monumental Gothic Revival masterpiece with a towering steeple.
    Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023

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