How to Use edifice in a Sentence

edifice

noun

• What does the Wolf think of the edifice crooked Bernie helped build?
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2021
• But there are few signs of cracks in the regime’s edifice.
  — Jonathan Spyer, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
• Jesus, still at the top of the edifice, dropped his hands.
  — Andrew Kay, Longreads, 17 July 2021
• The tonal flavor is softer, but the bright smiles of the concierge reflect the white edifice.
  — Michael Alpiner, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• Over the last three years, the edifice of that old order has begun to crack.
  — Michael Woldemariam, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2019
• The court’s marble edifice has been closed to the public since March.
  — Jess Bravin, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2020
• Not since the columned edifice was erected in 1903 has that much time passed since The Game was held in Allston.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2022
• Now the edifice was collapsed, and there was a smoking hill of rubble where the kitchen had been.
  — James Verini, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2022
• Every once in a while, the whole edifice of Obamacare felt threatened by the Supreme Court.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 6 Oct. 2017
• All playing out against the backdrop of some of the most stately edifices.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 8 Sep. 2023
• It was given to the city in 1975 and is probably the most modest edifice to bear the Getty name.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
• Genetics is the foundation for a grand edifice which aims to paint the tree of life.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2013
• Four years later, a site for such an edifice has yet to be publicly named.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Apr. 2022
• A century ago, a strange edifice arose at the foot of the Hollywood Hills, on Kings Road.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 July 2022
• Certainly, there have been few scenes like it in the 50-year history of the edifice.
  — Tod Leonard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Sep. 2017
• The implosion of the edifice holding back the full force of the Dnipro River was no accident nor an act of God.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 6 June 2023
• Coach's wooden edifice might not be the easiest place to find on our steak trail.
  — Jared Boyd, AL.com, 23 June 2017
• Jammed against the church’s edifice was a young mother, bare-legged, protecting a rickety stroller, drowned out by the fray.
  — Caroline Aiken Koster, New York Daily News, 28 Mar. 2024
• And could Powers have erected the whole creaky edifice that is this novel in order to air this idea?
  — Gish Jen, The New Republic, 17 Sep. 2021
• Once those two clubs withdrew, the rest of the English teams followed, prompting the entire edifice to fall apart.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2021
• Rolls on the bass drum threaten to engulf the entire tottering edifice in a cloud of noise.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2022
• This was a good man, a brave one who proved himself solid when major edifices of the world were melting away.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2018
• An onyx edifice might not relate to other houses on the block.
  — Yelena Moroz Alpert, WSJ, 10 June 2021
• The Owens are trying to create a legacy that will endure as long as the edifice itself.
  — cleveland, 15 Aug. 2022
• The building jutted like a giant cruise ship above their heads, its edifice a patchwork of blue glass.
  — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• The edifice forms a large inner-circle that raises and widens in a succession of rings.
  — J. Weston Phippen, The Atlantic, 3 July 2017
• The hotel is a modern edifice in the City of London, an area in the British capital full of the goings on of banking and business.
  — Allyson Portee, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• But his edifice of power turned out to be fragile and dated, built on strong-arm rule, cronyism and an alliance with the West.
  — Michael Slackman, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
• The nature of the academic process naturally favors building on the existing edifice of theory instead of starting over, on fresh ground.
  — Steve Denning, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
• The work calls for climbing any manner of tall objects and edifices – frequently flagpoles but also towers, smokestacks and even the occasional cross – to install, repair, paint, maintain or inspect them.
  — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Jan 2025