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
• Its major cultural landmark is a Russian Orthodox church dating to 1907 and topped with a yellow onion dome.
  — Jessica Marshall, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2013
• 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

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024