marble
Example Sentences
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The other day I compared the saga of Andy Burnham, his ambitions and the forthcoming by-election in Greater Manchester to a long and twisting marble run.
From BBC
That marble might not even set off down the run, or might fly off spectacularly halfway down.
From BBC
The design could be modeled on the U-shaped Panathenaic Stadium in Athens—the quintessential example of pure classical architecture reconstructed in the second century and entirely clad in marble.
Most sculptors did not carve their own marble copies, but Stebbins insisted on doing so herself.
But greater impact, we see, was made by the German pavilion designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich using Roman travertine, green marble, onyx and glass, ushering in architecture’s International Style.
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