How to Use rotunda in a Sentence

rotunda

noun
  • We stood inside the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building.
  • The liquor shelves at the bar are made from part of the old building's rotunda, Chris said.
    Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The yelling, banging, and chaos echoed through the rotunda and rattled the doors of the 144-year-old building.
    Mallory McMorrow, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Gary walked around the back of the building and climbed the stairs walking right into the rotunda.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Take a mid-shopping spree snack to the rotunda to enjoy.
    Kaye Toal, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Video showed her in the rotunda and inside the Capitol Crypt and elsewhere.
    Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The event will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. outside the hospital’s main rotunda.
    Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2022
  • The rotunda will be open to the public for viewing Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the court announced Monday.
    orlandosentinel.com, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Warm woods and white walls mix in the living spaces, and the kitchen adds some flair with a brick fireplace and breakfast nook topped by a rotunda.
    Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2022
  • As for those men, their clubroom was on the opposite side of the main rotunda.
    Dallas News, 24 May 2022
  • So the staffers just drove over their own garden rotunda in the center circle of the driveway, destroying the grass and bricks around it.
    Lori Nickel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The inlaid floor in the rotunda was modeled on the Alhambra in Granada, Spain.
    Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The dome, which had been only a tiny dot from far away, now was a massive tiled rotunda with blue and yellow chevrons sitting atop the roof.
    Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Top of the Rock’s Osage Restaurant features a rotunda dining room with birch tree beams and bark on the ceiling.
    Sarah Gish, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The group is scheduled to perform at 10 a.m. today at the Capitol rotunda.
    Eula Calahan, Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Standing in the marble rotunda of City Hall, the mayor cast the decision as a turning point.
    New York Times, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Because light causes ink to fade, the rotunda is kept dim — about five candles’ worth of light, or 60 lumens.
    Sean Catangui, New York Times, 14 July 2023
  • His drawing of a rotunda in Rome is unassuming yet stirring, a metaphor for the show itself.
    Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Re-enter the rotunda, and the camera sees us only as a potential threat.
    New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The pair walked into the rotunda, through hallways near the House and Senate offices and joined up with a mob of people in Statuary Hall.
    Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 4 May 2022
  • Standing in the rotunda lobby, she was asked about the prospects of her candidacy.
    Benjamin Oreskesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The museum’s Founder’s Room, just off the main rotunda, was turned into a nightclub, with dancing.
    Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Her dream would be to show her work in the rotunda of the 60 Centre Street Courthouse, where the civil fraud trial stretched on for 44 days of testimony.
    Katrina Kaufman, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Many of those present took advantage of the press event’s scenic location overlooking the rotunda to film videos.
    Madison Malone Kircher, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Filing for state and federal offices will take place on the second floor of the Capitol rotunda.
    Rachel Herzog, Arkansas Online, 20 Feb. 2022
  • That starts the moment guests step through the rotunda doors and pass through velvet curtains to find a library lounge instead of a reception desk.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2024
  • More than a dozen protesters gathered in the Capitol rotunda ahead of the debate to urge the House to reject the compromise and pass tougher measures.
    Steve Karnowski, Star Tribune, 30 June 2021
  • Wearing a caped dress, Norah Jones took her seat on a piano bench at the bottom of the rotunda, her honeyed melodies floating up through the building.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 11 Nov. 2022
  • In addition to the church, there will be outdoor seating for the bell-tolling ceremony in the rotunda and courtyard.
    Orlando Sentinel Staff, Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2022
  • The stone rotunda that once housed the Boat Basin Cafe and a parking garage will also be renovated, in a separate project.
    Kim Velsey, Curbed, 2 July 2021

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