finial

Example Sentences

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One finial, or spire top, plummeted hundreds of feet into a shrub below, while two others also broke off their spires.

From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2021

In addition to the Rembrandt, there were some unusually esoteric items that were taken as well, like a Chinese gu vessel and a finial off a Napoleonic flag.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2021

Myrick spray-painted a nearby cement finial in the same bright yellow as the fence.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2021

One finial turned up in an American collection, and its mate surfaced in Israel, where it was about to be melted down before a Menorah Galleries supplier rescued it.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2015

The blue girl’s ghost gathered itself and perched, bereft, upon the spearpoint-tip of the projecting finial, just an inch above her own still chest.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor