How to Use apse in a Sentence

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• To the right and left of the apse are Coptic inscriptions.
  — Jim Berkeley, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
• Just east of the church apse, the archaeologists found the dome of a large tomb.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2021
• Don’t miss the apse’s vault, where Christ, flanked by four angels, sits on the Earth as four rivers of paradise flow beneath his feet.
  — Prathap Nair, National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2019
• It is posed in glorious isolation, back to the viewer, in a stone apse.
  — Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 10 May 2018
• At the east end of the wide nave, once covered by two domes, is the large apse, with three rectangular niches under semi-domes.
  — Jim Berkeley, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
• Seconds later, the apse collapsed into a pile of rubble.
  — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2021
• As in a Gothic cathedral, the living room acts as a kind of apse from which the chapels of the dining room, entertainment room, and kitchen all radiate.
  — Charles Curkin, ELLE Decor, 20 Nov. 2019
• As Hurriyet reports, Polat and his team uncovered the apse near the station’s waiting platforms.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2021
• The reception area and a wine bar occupy the original nave and apse of the church, while a superb open-walled breakfast room and library fill an upstairs mezzanine.
  — Alice Newell-Hanson, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Mar. 2018
• The most striking addition was the gold mosaic of Venetian glass in the apse wall depicting a stylized, youthful Christ figure.
  — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com, 26 July 2017
• There’s even a sort of font near the apse/prow of the gallery: a circular pool of clear oil in which hundreds of tiny steel bearings are gently nudged into geometries by a magnet circling beneath the surface.
  — Steve Mannheimer, Indianapolis Star, 22 Mar. 2018
• Behind the apse, in the monsignor’s private apartments, Dom Pérignon 2006 was poured for the ladies in glittering gowns and men in floaty silk caftans and shiny Alta Sartoria suits adorned with diamond brooches.
  — Alexandra Marshall, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017
• Located near Bath Abbey, the two semi-circular stone structures appear to have once been part of an Anglo-Saxon apse—the end of a church that often contains the altar—and date to sometime between the eighth and tenth centuries.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
• One bulging wall, poking out into a courtyard like a chapel’s apse, is actually a conversation nook for resident artists.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Sep. 2021
• Alessandro Cortini’s horror drones made sense in the apse, especially when heard while seated atop it; almost every inch of Arcosanti was available to explore, including the tops of buildings.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 16 May 2016
• Visitors enter through a narrow passage into a spare, traditional looking chapel whose apse wall is pockmarked with charcoal pieces framing a wooden cross.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 25 May 2018
• The officials also inaugurated the Mosaic of the Transfiguration situated in the eastern apse of the monastery’s great basilica.
  — Samy Magdy, The Seattle Times, 16 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024