How to Use cornice in a Sentence

cornice

noun

• Stay west of the high points and beware the cornices on the ridge’s east side.
  — Matt Johanson, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2017
• Test a new color on the wall from the skirting to the cornice — all painted out.
  — David Walters, The Cut, 31 Oct. 2017
• Gailani took top honors for her design of draperies, valances and cornices for a kitchen and breakfast area.
  — Michelle Mullins, Naperville Sun, 20 Apr. 2018
• The cornice of a hotel came down in the southern tourist city of Oaxaca, a witness said.
  — Frank Jack Daniel, Alaska Dispatch News, 8 Sep. 2017
• The names of Hebrew prophets, scholars and sages are etched in the terra cotta cornice that runs along the top of the building, just below the roof.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 27 Feb. 2021
• Vines cling to the red brick of the former corner store; a cornice hangs precariously from the roof.
  — Ian Duncan, baltimoresun.com, 12 Aug. 2017
• The living room features a Greek pattern etched into the cornice that runs to the elliptical bay in the center of the room.
  — Eric Piasecki, Town & Country, 3 Feb. 2022
• The cornice of a hotel collapsed in the southern tourist city of Oaxaca, a witness said.
  — Reuters, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2017
• Falling cornices of buildings also struck and killed many more.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
• The sculpted limestone cornice was retrofitted to serve as a retaining wall so cars could be parked on the roof.
  — Inga Saffron, Philly.com, 13 Feb. 2018
• The work includes restoring the façade, windows and rebuilding a cornice.
  — Eric Heisig, cleveland, 26 Mar. 2021
• The distinctive copper cornice and bay window are a nod to Whyte’s business.
  — Kathy Orton, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2022
• The apartment had high ceilings, Nero marble mantels, egg-and-dart cornices.
  — Richard Kramer, ELLE Decor, 2 June 2016
• The lime-green paint that accents the zigzagging cornice remains, faded but intact.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Nov. 2021
• Unfortunately, someone had roofed over this skylight and painted the walls bright red from the cornice down and white above.
  — Douglas Brenner, House Beautiful, 27 Feb. 2014
• The angle of my bridge and the curvature of the snout itself create a steep slope to a cornice—perfect for sending poorly fit coverings off the edge.
  — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 11 Dec. 2020
• The ceiling and fireplace, once ablaze with vivid colors, were whitewashed sometime in the distant past, and in 2008 a small portion of the ceiling’s curved cornice collapsed.
  — New York Times, 21 May 2021
• With its distinctive cornice, the building was one of the few in the immediate area to survive the riots and their aftermath.
  — Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• The Levinson is a 5-story, 85-unit apartment building with first-floor storefronts, a limestone base, arched windows, a limestone band above the first floor and a cornice.
  — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Nov. 2020
• The enchanting fragrance is enclosed in a matte glass bottle and topped with a golden cap shaped like an Italian cornice.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Dec. 2022
• The tree line ends at 1,500 feet, so unlike in the northeast or the Rockies the view consisted only of icy cornices, peaks, and gullies sheathed in a penetrating blanket of snow.
  — David Amsden, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2024
• Another tower, a mansard roof and a stone cornice were also later taken off.
  — Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Nov. 2021
• Ice ridges form with cornices that stab at the sky, or ice melts from the shoreline outward with a line of dark saturation that slowly grows until water and waves reappear.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 3 Feb. 2018
• Those waves along the sides are set in motion by more than two dozen terra-cotta forms, each a play of convexities and concavities that might have been pried from the cornice of a Baroque church.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 7 June 2021
• The Warrensville Heights Branch, for example, has a big, glassy rectangular-shaped reading room topped by a shiny metal cornice that juts into the sky.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 21 July 2019
• Two Poma lifts powered by a biodiesel generator bring skiers to the Twin Lakes Headwall for 600 acres of above-tree-line bowl skiing, including cornices to huck and rails to slide.
  — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 5 July 2018
• Its facade has limestone carvings, a copper cornice, and Doric columns.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
• The climax of my book was built around a true-life event: In 1974, a cast-iron building facade that was under the protection of the city Landmarks Preservation Commission was stolen, cornice to curb.
  — Julie Lasky, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2017
• Another has a snug terrace nestled against the structure’s ornate stone cornice — 11 floors above Market Street.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 May 2022
• Blowing snow can create wind loading and build up into cornices, creating an overhang that can eventually fall and trigger an avalanche below.
  — CBS News, 11 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024