cupola
Example Sentences
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He raised the roof of the house he inherited; added wings, a porch and a cupola; and selected—along with his wife, Martha—the interior’s paint colors, wallpapers and furniture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
You capture the beauty looking out of the cupola, but also the claustrophobia of an I.S.S. “bedroom.”
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2024
Its three spectacular bedrooms, one in a former chapel under a cupola, is imagined, the hotel managers say, as a Roman refuge for Arab sheikhs, Harry and Meghan, and Hollywood royalty.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
I theorized that copper ions blasted off the cupola roof by the photons in ultraviolet light were washing down on the shingles with each rainfall.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2023
It stood well back from the rattle and bustle of Marlborough Street, with its glassy-eyed copper Indian on top of the cupola and its carved and colored lion and unicorn of Britain over the door.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
Vocabulary lists containing cupola
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