How to Use lintel in a Sentence
lintel
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In the picture, the bottom surface of the lintel looks fine.
—Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2020
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In many cases the ends of this steel lintel extend to the extreme ends of the chimney.
—Boston.com Real Estate, 12 Sep. 2019
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The concrete lintel over one of our front windows has cracked.
—Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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Carvings of leering trolls loom on the lintel, warding off evil spirits.
—Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Around the sanctum were lintels carved with ornate scenes from Hindu mythology.
—Edward Wong, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2017
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The imposing brick building featured an ornate white archway and lintel over the entrance, and balconies for each unit.
—cleveland.com, 8 May 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Typically this lintel is set 8 to 12 inches higher than the finished fireplace opening.
—Boston.com Real Estate, 12 Sep. 2019
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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
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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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