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
• Past the entry, the eye is drawn upward to the dome of the three-story rotunda, which is made of stained glass.
  — Mary Grace Granados, Dallas News, 12 Dec. 2020
• At the same time as the rally played out in the rotunda, the mayor was holding a press briefing in the Blue Room across the hall.
  — Michael Gartland, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2024
• Take a mid-shopping spree snack to the rotunda to enjoy.
  — Kaye Toal, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2023
• The articles will go from the House chamber through the Capitol rotunda to the doors of the Senate.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 16 Apr. 2024
• The pair passed through a makeshift hallway and entered a rotunda.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
• Video showed her in the rotunda and inside the Capitol Crypt and elsewhere.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 14 Mar. 2022
• The tall windows, pillared facade, rooftop balustrade, and 90-foot-high rotunda of the main building give it the look of a chateau.
  — Adam Hochschild, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2019
• The 30-foot-high structure funnels sunlight from the rotunda’s glass and cast-iron dome.
  — Stacy Meichtry, WSJ, 17 May 2021
• Civil rights icon Rosa Parks, who died in 2005, is the only woman to lay in honor in the rotunda.
  — Susan Ferrechio, Washington Examiner, 21 Sep. 2020
• 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
• The rotunda with a 24-foot ceiling is perfect for a piano, said O’Gorman.
  — Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2020
• As for those men, their clubroom was on the opposite side of the main rotunda.
  — Dallas News, 24 May 2022
• Each inductee received a medallion and a plaque that will be placed inside the Hall of Fame rotunda.
  — Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Four steel spires, 65 feet tall, are inspired by the rotunda of the Hall of Fame building, designed to resemble the seams of a football.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2020
• 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
• At the center of the 9,600-square-foot floor plan, there’s a sweeping sculptural staircase topped by a rotunda skylight.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2020
• The group is scheduled to perform at 10 a.m. today at the Capitol rotunda.
  — Eula Calahan, Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2023
• At the ground floor’s center was a spacious rotunda, flooded with light from a dome five stories above.
  — John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2019
• Barricades blocked off the main entrance to what was once the grand rotunda of the J.C. Penney headquarters in Plano.
  — Emily Dunn, Dallas News, 30 Dec. 2020
• Julia Hobbs took to the mic for opening remarks, the drum of the crowd beneath the dome’s rotunda chandelier subsided.
  — Eoghan O'Donnell, Vogue, 18 July 2024
• That often means curves, whether arches, vaults, rotundas or domes (take the Pantheon in Rome, still the world’s largest unsupported dome in the world almost 2,000 years later).
  — Tom Page, CNN, 1 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024