How to Use palimpsest in a Sentence

palimpsest

noun

• The ancient city is an architectural palimpsest.
• The Kessel find is a double palimpsest because the parchment was then used a third time.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2023
• Still, the portrait accrues meaning when viewed as a palimpsest.
  — Alexandra Styron, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
• Georgetown is a good place to glimpse such palimpsests, which include the cobbles and streetcar tracks on O and P streets.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2019
• The code, a sort of palimpsest by now, becomes difficult to understand.
  — Ellen Ullman, WIRED, 1 Apr. 1999
• Like the establishment itself, Tuxedo’s menu is a palimpsest, revealing both the past and the present.
  — Becky Cooper, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
• The palimpsests were made from a stretched leather that would have been laborious and expensive to produce at the time.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 11 July 2017
• What remains is a palimpsest of culture and history, as layered as a cross section of the earth itself.
  — Christopher Bollen, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
• How such a storied place came to be ignored by most tourists is explained by its palimpsest quality.
  — Tamar Adler, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 May 2017
• Thus, the home is also a palimpsest of her long career spent at the nexus of the worlds of fashion, art and design, and nearly everything in it has a story to tell.
  — Laura May Todd, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2021
• The line applies uncannily well to Las Vegas, that garish palimpsest of shrines to vice and Mammon.
  — Christine Cipriani, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2017
• This sudden lumpy palimpsest — the absence of his body, the presence of mine — hit me, in that moment, as outrageous and weird and sad and embarrassing and funny.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2022
• The multispectral imaging of the palimpsest was carried out in January 2020.
  — Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2023
• The key coastal towns include Positano, a wedding cake of colors tumbling down to the water, and Amalfi, a palimpsest of architectural eras.
  — Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• Dating him forces her to reconceptualize the city not as a symbol—a palimpsest of elsewheres—but as a real location.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2019
• Caillebotte was fascinated by the transition, and by the way the city could be read as a kind of palimpsest, one historical layer on top of another.
  — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2021
• Subsequent impact events can heat up parts of a rock, glazing it with fields from later times and creating a magnetic palimpsest.
  — Byzack Savitsky, science.org, 20 Dec. 2022
• The real legacy of this entire ugly debacle, then, may never be fully known: a palimpsest of stories not told, of justice not sought.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 2 June 2022
• The road there led west through a palimpsest of onetime front lines to an army encampment, where four domed tents, their tarpaulin covers tattered and torn by the wind, had been erected for receiving refugees.
  — National Geographic, 17 Oct. 2016
• Which is perhaps because Shyne Barrow is an actual 43-year-old palimpsest, a bunch of guys baked into one: the rap phenom, the convict, the religious scholar, the statesman.
  — Sean Williams, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2022
• Visitors will need to respect the rules of the mosques in Turkey and dress appropriately, but there is no longer a fee to experience the ultimate palimpsest of a building.
  — Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2021
• The palimpsest of time is an enduring fascination for Barada in a city that is constantly morphing, sometimes in ways that erode the quality of life.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 6 Apr. 2018
• In the living room, a primary-colored Ida Kohlmeyer hangs opposite from a palimpsest-like painting by Nicole Charbonnet.
  — Susan Langenhennig, NOLA.com, 17 May 2017
• In the spacious interiors, walls are pared back to brick or sanded down to a palimpsest of paint layers resembling an expressionist canvas.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Aug. 2019
• Phelps and his fellow researchers are making images of the palimpsests available online, so scholars can explore the secret writings that have recently been brought to light.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 5 Sep. 2017
• The photographs capture reality but, by repetition, distort the image until what’s left is a blurred and layered palimpsest of form and tone.
  — OregonLive.com, 3 Jan. 2018
• Centuries of paint, layer upon layer, peel away, a palimpsest of fine intentions measured in the warm earth tones of the south—terra-cotta, russet, rose madder, ocher; colors that were the latest thing in Caesar's day.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2021
• What is even more intriguing about this discovery, though, is that the codex found is actually a palimpsest, meaning that the original writings were scraped from their parchment to make way for other texts to be written on top of them.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 22 Oct. 2022
• The plot of the first Frozen is an obvious palimpsest of script drafts with a nonsensical heel turn at the end, sufficiently ridiculous to be mocked via summary by the snowman Olaf in one of the sequel’s few genuinely funny sequences.
  — Ross Douthat, National Review, 9 Jan. 2020
• Some of the iron beams and storage closets from that era are still visible — details Tieghi-Walker appreciated as a palimpsest of the previous occupants’ influence on the space.
  — Diana Budds, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2022

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