pediment
Example Sentences
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Her casket will be carried up the steps in front of the court, passing under the iconic words engraved on the pediment, “Equal Justice Under Law,” and placed in the court’s Great Hall.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 17, 2023
Unfortunately for the cause of intelligent discourse, his statement was erected upon a pediment of lies.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2023
The pediment in our 80-year-old house had started to rot.
From Washington Post • Sep. 12, 2021
Until we had to replace our pediment and pilasters, I didn’t know what they were.
From Washington Post • Sep. 12, 2021
Ahead of them a sloping lawn rose directly out of the floodwater and led smoothly up to the white facade of the house, the columns and the pediment.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
