How to Use edifice in a Sentence

edifice

noun
  • What does the Wolf think of the edifice crooked Bernie helped build?
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2021
  • But there are few signs of cracks in the regime’s edifice.
    Jonathan Spyer, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Jesus, still at the top of the edifice, dropped his hands.
    Andrew Kay, Longreads, 17 July 2021
  • The tonal flavor is softer, but the bright smiles of the concierge reflect the white edifice.
    Michael Alpiner, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • Over the last three years, the edifice of that old order has begun to crack.
    Michael Woldemariam, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2019
  • The court’s marble edifice has been closed to the public since March.
    Jess Bravin, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Yet, for all this progress, the cracks in the 401(k) edifice remain glaring.
    Brian Menickella, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • We’re stranded among the shards of civil rights but amid the edifices of the Black Arts Movement.
    Wesley Morris, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The gremlins come out; the edifices crumble; the saucy doubts and fears triumph.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Not since the columned edifice was erected in 1903 has that much time passed since The Game was held in Allston.
    John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Now the edifice was collapsed, and there was a smoking hill of rubble where the kitchen had been.
    James Verini, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Every once in a while, the whole edifice of Obamacare felt threatened by the Supreme Court.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 6 Oct. 2017
  • All playing out against the backdrop of some of the most stately edifices.
    Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The Apollo is one of those edifices that will around not only for the rest of our lives, but the many to come after our lives are over.
    Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
  • It was given to the city in 1975 and is probably the most modest edifice to bear the Getty name.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
  • Genetics is the foundation for a grand edifice which aims to paint the tree of life.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2013
  • Four years later, a site for such an edifice has yet to be publicly named.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Apr. 2022
  • A century ago, a strange edifice arose at the foot of the Hollywood Hills, on Kings Road.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 July 2022
  • The wide base is around 2.25 feet across at its widest, is finished with black wood veneer, and keeps the whole edifice stable.
    Simon Hill, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Certainly, there have been few scenes like it in the 50-year history of the edifice.
    Tod Leonard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Sep. 2017
  • The implosion of the edifice holding back the full force of the Dnipro River was no accident nor an act of God.
    Noah Rothman, National Review, 6 June 2023
  • Coach's wooden edifice might not be the easiest place to find on our steak trail.
    Jared Boyd, AL.com, 23 June 2017
  • Jammed against the church’s edifice was a young mother, bare-legged, protecting a rickety stroller, drowned out by the fray.
    Caroline Aiken Koster, New York Daily News, 28 Mar. 2024
  • And could Powers have erected the whole creaky edifice that is this novel in order to air this idea?
    Gish Jen, The New Republic, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Once those two clubs withdrew, the rest of the English teams followed, prompting the entire edifice to fall apart.
    Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Rolls on the bass drum threaten to engulf the entire tottering edifice in a cloud of noise.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2022
  • This was a good man, a brave one who proved himself solid when major edifices of the world were melting away.
    Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2018
  • An onyx edifice might not relate to other houses on the block.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, WSJ, 10 June 2021
  • The Owens are trying to create a legacy that will endure as long as the edifice itself.
    cleveland, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The building jutted like a giant cruise ship above their heads, its edifice a patchwork of blue glass.
    Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023

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