How to Use onion dome in a Sentence

onion dome

noun
  • The local church, with its onion dome, sits next to the school.
    JerÉ Longman and Matthew Kruchak, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2017
  • The gaudy casino — the world’s largest — opened its doors two years later, bedecked with bright-colored onion domes and laden with debt.
    New York Times, 4 Feb. 2020
  • On one side of the street, faintly visible through the sooty mist, was the steeple of an Orthodox church, its brass onion dome pierced by shrapnel.
    James Verini, New York Times, 19 May 2022
  • Passengers spilled off the ship to amble the dirt roads and take pictures of the Russian Orthodox church, with its blue and white onion domes.
    Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2016
  • One of my favorite things to do is go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture.
    Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
  • On the second floor of the Potrero Hill brewery, built as a coffee roastery in the 1930s, workers still hand-crank the valve on the copper mash cooker, half a century old and shaped like an onion dome.
    San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Jan. 2015
  • 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
  • When the Russians defeated Spain, the entire soccer world, including the news media, shouted as one from under the onion domes: Oh, what a Cinderella story.
    Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 2 July 2018
  • Still, most of the community’s churches, topped with golden onion domes and rising among fields or nestled between homes, have largely or entirely closed down.
    oregonlive, 11 May 2020
  • One of the distinguishing features of the Hobbs Building was its iconic onion dome that had become a recognizable part of Aurora’s skyline.
    Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The Moorish Revival structure, known for its distinctive onion domes, attracted interest from a range of retailers and real estate investors.
    Ryan Ori, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2019

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