How to Use edifice in a Sentence

edifice

noun

• 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
• 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
• All playing out against the backdrop of some of the most stately edifices.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 8 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 church met at the courthouse for almost two decades and then in a stone edifice; the current structure was built shortly after the Civil War.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2021
• But breaking up this arrangement would crash the whole edifice, Lewis said.
  — Chris Roberts, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
• After years of fighting and stray rockets, the whole edifice was beaten up.
  — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
• It had been built as a Masonic Temple, but by 1969 that edifice of secrecy had become the coolest rock and roll club and venue in town, the Rock Pile.
  — Geddy Lee, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2023
• But the hotel shut its doors for good a few years ago, a hulking edifice that some liken to a rearing pterodactyl but that others just call a fire trap.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2021
• From the get-go, the Belnord was a newsmaker — an edifice of excess, a home for hyperbole.
  — New York Times, 27 June 2022
• Yet, investors fear that the entire edifice is built on a shaky foundation.
  — R. Mukund, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• Houses with pastures That—give me an edifice—rub up Against the very fingernails!
  — John Lee Clark, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Standing at the foot of this forbidding edifice, Cantor focused on the first couple of floors.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 July 2021
• The Tokyo Olympic Stadium on a hot and sticky Monday morning was an edifice in search of an audience.
  — NBC News, 24 July 2021
• Closed to the public for centuries, the edifice now opens directly onto the square, the Café Lapérouse tempting visitors to stay awhile.
  — Washington Post, 23 July 2021
• Today, the McKim, Mead & White-designed edifice still serves its founding ethos, though now the club admits women.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 21 Mar. 2022
• At the state Capitol recently, Hotaling took a tour of the historic, 1879 edifice and talked about his ideas and campaign plans.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 9 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024