How to Use flying buttress in a Sentence

flying buttress

noun

• The vault is still punctured by gaping holes, and the flying buttresses are propped up by giant wooden blocks.
  — Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2019
• The soaring structure is famed for its flying buttresses, which help hold...
  — WSJ, 15 Apr. 2019
• The sign, which went up in the 1960s, is as much a part of Tribune Tower’s identity as its Gothic grotesques and flying buttresses.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• The two-story orb nestles in a cocoon of pipes and cables, the red coils of its main magnet arching up out of the chaos like flying buttresses.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 6 Feb. 2020
• Even its Batman top, whose glass walls would frame a swath of sky-high open space, would nod to the memorable voids formed by the tower’s flying buttresses, which insert patches of sky into the body of the skyscraper.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• But a newspaper is not flying buttresses and arches and limestone.
  — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2018
• This medieval-inspired stone castle flaunts arched portals, flying buttresses, towers, onion domes, a moat and a drawbridge.
  — Tom Noel, The Know, 25 Aug. 2019
• By 1182, much of the cathedral’s choir — the liturgical core of the building, then reserved for the clergy — with its iconic flying buttresses supporting its tall walls and roof, had been completed.
  — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2020
• The monument’s iconic flying buttresses are another late addition, and weren't even planned until the 1300s.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 16 Apr. 2019
• In contrast to the historic skyscraper’s filigreed crown of flying buttresses and pinnacles, the top of the new one would consist of curving glass walls extending beyond the building’s occupied floors.
  — Blair Kamin and Ryan Ori, chicagotribune.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• To prevent such a disaster, in early July a giant crane began hoisting 7-ton wooden frames cut to the exact specifications of the flying buttresses, to be wedged inside each arc, in order to weigh them down and stop the building from shifting.
  — Vivienne Walt / Paris, Time, 25 July 2019
• The final touches to the monument were put in place in the 1300s by master builder Jean Ravy, who was one of the first to employ another great Gothic architectural innovation: flying buttresses, exterior braces to help support the roof and walls.
  — National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2019
• Studying the mortar used to bind the stones together could reveal how different compositions were used for the various structural elements—vaulting, walls and flying buttresses.
  — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 9 Jan. 2020
• And so Notre Dame’s clerestory windows were enlarged, the roofs changed and the flying buttresses reconstructed, although the cathedral remained relatively dark despite its fashionable update.
  — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2020
• Moreover, Wren’s weight-bearing walls demanded Gothic-style flying buttresses, which would have looked incongruous amid his Classicism.
  — Barrymore Laurence Scherer, WSJ, 11 May 2018

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