How to Use pediment in a Sentence

pediment

noun

• The pediments above the inner doors here include some of the most accomplished carving from the Angkor period.
  — Antonia Neubauer, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
• The pediments above the inner doors here include some of the most accomplished carving from the Angkor period.
  — Antonia Neubauer, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
• Your secretary bookcase with the arched pediment top is a great vintage piece.
  — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 11 June 2020
• Biden loves holiday lights and is the first to place a large illuminated wreath atop the pediment of the North Portico.
  — Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2021
• The drawing on the label is a doorway topped by an imposing neo-Georgian pediment.
  — Providence Cicero, The Seattle Times, 20 June 2018
• At the foot of the Bowery, there’s a strange-looking postmodernist building with an arched metal door framed by slender columns and capped with a mint-green pediment.
  — Curbed, 25 May 2023
• Perched at the apex of the Hellenic pediment, just above the entrance, is an eagle (now headless) with its wings spread wide, a symbol associated with the Nabatean god Dushara.
  — Tharik Hussain, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022
• And the palace’s impressively detailed white pediments and pinnacles chimed in with the intricate nuances of the bride’s dress.
  — Vogue, 14 Aug. 2017
• The new image depicts a stylized version of the pediment and cupola of the school’s facade, with a sunburst effect encircling the cupola.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• Other vestiges of the home’s once-decorative past: A narrow pediment hangs over the front door, which has flattened, faux columns on both sides.
  — oregonlive, 8 Nov. 2020
• Gerardo’s, built in 1928 according to the pediment on the Third Street side of the building, has an intriguing history.
  — Donna Reiner, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2022
• Built in the Brescian Baroque style, its yellow-hued stone facade has large windows topped with dramatic pediments and a tall arched entryway carved with images of shields and of knights on horseback.
  — Laura May Todd, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• Four massive columns support the triangular front pediment (gable), and large windows let in plenty of light.
  — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2021
• In a recent project that called for an eagle set in a pediment, Bedard adapted a historic example for a strikingly detailed bird.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 6 Dec. 2019
• The major loss is Pope’s circular music room, with its skylight, narrow vestibules, and classical arch pediments.
  — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Apr. 2018
• In the sanctuary, a replica of the Señor de Tula stands on a red marble pediment behind the altar, a replacement for the stainless-steel cross originally installed by the architects.
  — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2021
• Its grammar of columns and capitals, pediments and proportions allows a wide range of expression.
  — Myron Magnet, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
• The biggest structural challenge of the renovation was to remove the ugly dormer and rebuild it, using Welsh slate tiles to clad the roof and Portland stone to recreate its original decorative pediment.
  — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 11 Apr. 2018
• Located on a hill in the western part of the Belgian capital, the basilica, the world's fifth-largest church, features a green copper dome flanked by two towers with tiered architecture, modern stained glass windows, a pediment, and arches.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2021
• Instead, a curving glass sail crowns the building like a 21st century pediment, hiding the elevator and window-washing equipment.
  — Christopher Hawthorne, latimes.com, 24 June 2017
• Passersby on Oregon's Interstate 5 saw a boxy building with an out-of-scale, giant pediment hovering over six elaborate window frames.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• Moreover, the form’s elements, from bases to columns to pediment sculpture, reflected the human body’s shape in a radical assertion of man’s presence and control, if not domination, over the landscape.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Jan. 2018
• However, tucked into one of those walls is an elegant but easily missed double door underneath a broken pediment leading to a true treasure trove filled with items that would fetch eye-popping sums at auction.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 21 May 2021
• Nevertheless, a pediment (gable) discovered in its proximity, currently on display in the Israel Museum, also dates to the time of David.
  — Marion Fischel, Sun Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2022
• Johnson’s addition employs stair towers shaped like crenelated castle turrets and a main entrance lobby framed by six sturdy brick columns that hold up a triangular pediment topped by a dome.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 23 Dec. 2021
• Symbols of liberation and lost causes are everywhere, telling rival stories, like the Greek Revival plantation houses, with their white columns and pediments out front, and their former slave cabins calling quietly from the back.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 20 July 2017
• The crown, a temple pediment with a cannonball hole in its center, was instantly recognizable on the skyline as an oversized frill — proudly unnecessary, retro, enigmatic.
  — Curbed, 2 Nov. 2022
• The intricate pediment ornamentation was recreated from stamped zinc, as on the original building.
  — John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2020
• The troubles of the decaying steeple and its rotting pediment were well known to the interdenominational congregation of 150 families, affiliated with the United Church of Christ.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 25 Mar. 2022
• Despite the narrowness of the main facade, Wilson managed to pack all the basic, neoclassical elements of early 20th-century library design into his building, including a wide, ennobling staircase, pediment, and columns.
  — Inga Saffron, Philly.com, 20 May 2018

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024