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

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