ARCHITECTURE in a Sentence

Learn ARCHITECTURE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

52 example sentences for ARCHITECTURE, such as:

1. I find a lot of modern architecture very ugly.
2. The masterpiece of Jesuit architecture is at Namur.
3. This is modern architecture at its most unattractive.
4. I now glanced sideways at this piece of architecture.
5. This church is a perfect example of medieval architecture.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of ARCHITECTURE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
architecture
 n.  art and science of designing and erecting buildings; buildings and other large structures
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  She walked back through Wilmette and Evanston, discovered new forms of suburban architecture, and remembered her desire to recreate villages.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Perhaps he'd create some entirely new form of architecture.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  But the little man suggested that the architecture of Gopher Prairie was haphazard, and that it was sottish to let the lake-front be monopolized by the cinder-heaped wall of the railroad embankment.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
4  Tis but indifferent architecture to make a blind dome; here's one.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 108. Ahab and the Carpenter.
5  He escorted them to the house, which was one of a long row of the typical frame dwellings of the neighborhood, where architecture is a luxury that is dispensed with.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
6  Sleary himself, a stout modern statue with a money-box at its elbow, in an ecclesiastical niche of early Gothic architecture, took the money.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
7  Holmes walked slowly, taking keen note of the architecture of the house.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
8  There were some really curious pieces of mediaeval domestic architecture within.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
9  I began to recognize our own pretty and familiar architecture, the thousands hand ran back to the starting-point, the night and day flapped slower and slower.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XII
10  Not an unevenness of the ground, not a caprice in the architecture, not a fold.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
11  Cement was lacking, of course, but, as in the case of certain Roman walls, without interfering with its rigid architecture.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
12  The masterpiece of Jesuit architecture is at Namur.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER TH...
13  I now glanced sideways at this piece of architecture.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  We came at length to the house, which was indeed a noble structure, built according to the best rules of ancient architecture.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER IV.
15  Drummle, an old-looking young man of a heavy order of architecture, was whistling.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIII
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  She studied architecture and art history at the university.
2  This palace is an example of early ancient Chinese architecture.
3  This concept has been applied successively to painting, architecture and sculpture.
4  Candidates must hold a professional degree in architecture.
5  This church is a perfect example of medieval architecture.
6  Hatfield House is a fine example of Jacobean architecture.
7  Charlie's always been something of an expert on architecture.
8  Bay windows are a conspicuous feature of his architecture.
9  Major works of painting, sculpture, mosaic and architecture were examined in situ in Venice.
10  St Peter's Church is a striking example of mission revival architecture.
11  I find a lot of modern architecture very ugly.
12  This is modern architecture at its most unattractive.
13  Rogers, an iconoclast in architecture, is sometimes described as putting the insides of buildings on the outside.
14  The building exemplifies the style of architecture which was popular at the time.
15  A home does not consist in the quality of its architecture and decoration.