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
• 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
• 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 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
• To make way for this striking edifice, however, one of Phoenix’s oldest schools had to be razed.
  — Douglas C. Towne, The Arizona Republic, 19 Aug. 2021
• The fight is over an old structure that never was the prettiest edifice in town, common bricks and concrete blocks for the first floor.
  — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 12 Feb. 2018
• Leave a Note Designed in 1952, this hilltop modernist edifice is for many the nicest hotel in all of Lisbon.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
• The 10 grand Newport Mansions, ornate edifices from the Gilded Age that were once home to some of the wealthiest people in the world, are now open to everyone.
  — Catherine Garcia, theweek, 25 July 2024
• The building’s cornerstone contains ore from the mines that were active in the area when it was built in 1910, and its white brick edifice was shipped in from Salt Lake City, according to a city historical document.
  — Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 13 July 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024