How to Use ziggurat in a Sentence

ziggurat

noun

• Most dramatic was the ziggurat, which is some 85 feet tall and once stood at least twice as high.
  — Leon McCarron, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
• The concrete ziggurat at 33rd and Tenth Avenue had the look of a place designed to muffle screams from deep inside.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 30 Sep. 2021
• Over mountains and swamps, through castles and ziggurats, anywhere the World of Warcraft might lead.
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 27 June 2019
• Crile, a 14-story building shaped like a ziggurat – a stepped pyramid – set the pattern.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 28 July 2019
• In a 2018 visit, the most prominent display inside the door was not a ziggurat of new releases, but a bin of wool socks and scarves.
  — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2023
• Weeks or months later, your Todoist app is a teetering ziggurat of tasks, too painful even to behold.
  — Clive Thompson, Wired, 27 July 2021
• One of the world’s newest space analogs is inside a white ziggurat on top of a former nuclear bunker in Pila, Poland.
  — Wired, 29 Oct. 2019
• Eventually, these farmers' offspring built the ziggurats of Mesopotamia and the great pyramids of Egypt.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 3 Aug. 2017
• That’s right—there was a time in the not-too-distant past when parents let their scamper over concrete ziggurats and build their own play structures with hammers and nails.
  — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 18 July 2018
• On the top level — up a wood staircase that lends a ziggurat detail to the kitchen wall behind it — is the master suite which has its own bathroom and spacious closet.
  — Julie Lasky, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2018
• For the next course, you might be asked to place your palm flat on the table so the server can build a little ziggurat on the back of your hand: layers of beef tartare, potato soufflé and oyster, which you’ll be told to lick off.
  — Rico Gagliano, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2017
• On the horizon, military members paced the top of a 4,000-year-old mud-brick Mesopotamian ziggurat, the lone remnant of the ancient civilization.
  — Louisa Loveluck, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2021
• Earlier this month, the doors to the tropical rainforest, enclosed under a ziggurat of glass, were sealed shut.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 16 Oct. 2019
• The location of the ziggurat said to have been the Tower of Babel described in the Old Testament has also never been established.
  — New York Times, 6 Feb. 2021
• The opera still stands today, a concrete and glass ziggurat in the most symbolic of Paris’s squares, decorated with sculptures by Niki de Saint Phalle.
  — James McAuley, Town & Country, 16 Aug. 2017
• The opera still stands today, a concrete and glass ziggurat in the most symbolic of Paris’s squares, decorated with sculptures by Niki de Saint Phalle.
  — James McAuley, Town & Country, 8 Sep. 2017
• Clues and mysteries For the first four seasons at Ur, Woolley concentrated on the area around the ziggurat, or temple tower.
  — National Geographic, 22 May 2019
• The first magic trick of the night came in her transformation from Nefertiti chic to campus casual, emerging in cut-offs at the peak of the bleachers-slash-ziggurat.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2018
• Cream colored, four-story ziggurat shaped buildings at the marina look out at ample sea views and sunsets.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 29 May 2022
• In the master suite, the fireplace was designed to evoke a ziggurat and features an ornamental stairway that ascends toward the heavens.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2019
• Its towering ziggurat, or step pyramid, was bulldozed in a final frenzy of destruction as Iraqi forces closed in last fall.
  — Lee Keath, The Seattle Times, 29 June 2017
• In Ur, his speech, within view of a 4,000-year-old mud brick ziggurat with a temple dedicated to a moon god, added biblical and emotional resonance to the day.
  — New York Times, 6 Mar. 2021
• The meeting was held in the shadow of Ur’s magnificent ziggurat, the 6,000-year-old archaeological complex near the modern city of Nasiriyah.
  — Time, 6 Mar. 2021
• Ur, with its ancient ziggurat, is the traditional birthplace of Abraham, prophet common to Christians, Muslims and Jews.
  — Anmar Khalil, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2021
• The ziggurat ruins were the highest point in the surrounding Nineveh plains and could serve as an ideal defensive position, yet the site is in a remote area far from strategic locations.
  — National Geographic, 10 Nov. 2016
• The master suite fireplace evokes a ziggurat and features an ornamental stairway to heaven.
  — Lauren Beale, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2019
• The two tombs, their fine ziggurat patterning inscribing them into the complex as a whole, lean inward on marble bases whose bottoms are gently curved, as if a push might bring them together.
  — Max Norman, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• Designs were suggested that showed the memorial as a huge pyramid, or a giant ziggurat topped with a statue of Lincoln, or a large circle of columns around a statue of a seated Lincoln.
  — Michael E. Ruane, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2022
• The terrace—just below the tower’s ziggurat—offers a breathtaking panorama.
  — Los Angeles Magazine, 20 June 2017
• My decent-seeming GPA of 3.2 was a red-speckled ziggurat of desperation and deception.
  — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019

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