How to Use lintel in a Sentence

lintel

noun

• In the picture, the bottom surface of the lintel looks fine.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2020
• In many cases the ends of this steel lintel extend to the extreme ends of the chimney.
  — Boston.com Real Estate, 12 Sep. 2019
• The concrete lintel over one of our front windows has cracked.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2020
• The tomb owner's name might be carved on the lintel over the tomb's door, but that hasn't been excavated yet.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 10 Oct. 2018
• The windows of the building on the first few floors are fortified with wide deep lintels and thick mesh iron grating.
  — Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
• Work involves replacing the lintel beams and related brick, as well as a door frame at the fire station, which was built in 1947.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
• Carvings of leering trolls loom on the lintel, warding off evil spirits.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019
• The two other relics that will be returned include a sun god and a lintel with carvings of the Hindu gods Vishnu and Brahma.
  — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2021
• Enlarge / Stonehenge as viewed from the northeast, showing the post-and-lintel construction of the Sarsen Circle.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 4 May 2022
• Enlarge / Stonehenge as viewed from the northeast, showing the post-and-lintel construction of the Sarsen Circle.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 4 May 2022
• This creates a noticeably compact rear door aperture, requiring a duck of the head to get past the curved lintel.
  — Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 13 Apr. 2022
• A wood lintel with faux painted stones on the sides decorates the entrance, and a mural depicting the Provence area of France is painted on the pocket doors.
  — Lisa McLean, baltimoresun.com, 16 June 2017
• The central horseshoe made of trilithons (two upright stones topped by a lintel) and the surrounding outer ring of stones were completed around 2500 B.C.
  — National Geographic, 12 Nov. 2020
• Around the sanctum were lintels carved with ornate scenes from Hindu mythology.
  — Edward Wong, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2017
• The imposing brick building featured an ornate white archway and lintel over the entrance, and balconies for each unit.
  — cleveland.com, 8 May 2018
• One of the trilithons (arch-like structures made of two upright stones supporting a horizontal lintel stone) in the central horseshoe fell down in 1797.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 30 July 2020
• One of the more interesting new finds from the dig is a lintel, or structural beam from a chapel with a depiction of Maat, the Egyptian goddess of order, equity, and peace.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 Apr. 2018
• When the upstairs bathroom in her New York home required stripping down to the original structure, a shoe was found hidden above the door lintel between the ceiling of the second floor and the attic floor.
  — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2021
• The other relics to be repatriated include the bronze bell, a sandstone sculpture of a standing Surya, the sun god, and a lintel depicting the sleep of the Hindu god Vishnu and birth Brahma.
  — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2021
• Miers told the council the developer agreed to incorporate the building’s 1910 cornerstone and the lintel above the door into the new structure’s designs.
  — Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2022
• The facade has brick and red sandstone from Lake Superior, with a carved terra-cotta lintel and fluted iron pilasters.
  — Michael Pollak, New York Times, 8 July 2016
• There is also an inner ring of smaller bluestones and, within that ring, several free-standing trilithons (larger sarsens joined by one lintel).
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2022
• The mason's marks carved into the quarry-stone lintels are stick figures and feather arrows, suggesting a pre-literate group of stone workers.
  — Mark Stevenson, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2018
• Yaxchilán is notable for its detailed sculptures and limestone lintel carvings, which depict the region’s history and rulers.
  — Tim Leffel, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
• Typically this lintel is set 8 to 12 inches higher than the finished fireplace opening.
  — Boston.com Real Estate, 12 Sep. 2019
• Similarly, a lintel uncovered during the excavation explores the lineage of another woman of high rank, Adatalabe, who counts a royal prince among her blood line.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 Apr. 2018
• My mystical vision evaporated, however, after the mansion’s custodian showed me another inscription, which had been scratched into the lintel of the house’s external doorway.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021

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