DOME in a Sentence

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41 example sentences for DOME, such as:

1. A band of gray hair encircled his bald dome.
2. The dome was supported by white marble columns.
3. The flag on the dome of the Tuileries was white.
4. The great vault brightened, like the dome of an immense lamp.
5. But this was the complete dome of heaven, all there was of it.

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 Meanings and Examples of DOME
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dome
 n.  building or house, especially as great hall, church, or temple; anything shaped like cupola
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  The effect produced on Frome was rather of a complete absence of atmosphere, as though nothing less tenuous than ether intervened between the white earth under his feet and the metallic dome overhead.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  From the cliffs across the river Carol and Kennicott looked back at St. Paul on its hills; an imperial sweep from the dome of the cathedral to the dome of the state capitol.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  The fireplace was filled with a dome of ice when we got there, but we chopped it out, and jammed the thing full of pine-boughs.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
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  But this was the complete dome of heaven, all there was of it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
6  Beneath a splendid dome were men of all nations, moving to and fro, over the marble pave.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
7  The city of Paris was having the dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
8  A squadron of magnificent body-guards, with their clarions at their head, were descending the Avenue de Neuilly; the white flag, showing faintly rosy in the setting sun, floated over the dome of the Tuileries.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA'S
9  He was looking at the dome of the Invalides, which was visible from Bombarda's windows.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE DEATH OF A HORSE
10  The flag on the dome of the Tuileries was white.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
11  These gates, therefore, swung inexorably on their hinges at the instant when the sun disappeared behind the dome of the Invalides.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
12  It was rising in a ruddy glow behind the low dome of Salpetriere.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XV—JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES
13  Mont Blanc, the supreme and magnificent Mont Blanc, raised itself from the surrounding aiguilles, and its tremendous dome overlooked the valley.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
14  Observe how fast we move along and how the clouds, which sometimes obscure and sometimes rise above the dome of Mont Blanc, render this scene of beauty still more interesting.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
15  The great vault brightened, like the dome of an immense lamp.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
Example Sentence:
1  Go where he will, the wise man is at home His harth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
2  The dome was supported by white marble columns.
3  The builders have perched a light concrete dome on eight slender columns.
4  A band of gray hair encircled his bald dome.
5  There is a transparent dome on the top of the aircraft, through which celestial observations are made for navigation.
6  Slightly smaller than the shrine, the chapel is also a domed structure cruciform in plan.