edifice

Example Sentences

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Thick layers of sediment rich in organic material lie beneath the volcanic edifice.

From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2025

It’s why you have to have this edifice and why it needs to be worked on constantly.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2025

I took the elevator back down to street level and hopped a cab toward the strangely antique edifice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

And then, the entire edifice crumbled as Baltimore became the focus and fall guy for one of the more infamous investigations of scientific misconduct in the last half of the 20th century.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025

He saw a little glow ahead of him, and then without interval a tall flame leaped up in the dark with a crackling roar, and a tall edifice of fire lighted the pathway.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck