finial

Example Sentences

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An anonymous sheet by an Austrian designer from about 1515 shows the whole operation compressed into a single image of a finial, upon which are inscribed the subdivided squares that generated it.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

They were gleaming and galactic-themed with a swirling purple-and-black design and a lunar white round barrel finial.

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2022

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

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