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Example sentences for "archways"

Lexicographically close words:
archons; archonship; archpriest; archus; archway; arcing; arcs; arctic; arctics; arctos
  1. At every landing a vista of broad archways reechoes my steps--archways that once led to rooms worthy of a prince.

  2. On the level of the ground little archways sometimes pass through this breastwork, by which means the defenders can crawl out to the stockade and reconnoitre their enemies.

  3. On the right was the usual long room with archways giving on the court.

  4. They are very numerous all over the city, and are generally fronted by three or more wooden archways painted in some bright colour and open to the street.

  5. One side is entirely open to the air, and through three archways connected by a low balustrade of perforated stonework overlooks the court.

  6. Between the two archways a terrible current was setting.

  7. Now and again, it was to prove, even the water-worn pavement between the two archways was left bare, and one could walk dry-shod along the rocks under the high land of the point from the beach to the cave.

  8. From one of the archways here one might see in the mind's eye Mme.

  9. In large houses the entrance courts not infrequently had archways in their side walls to afford access to the gardens or the orchard.

  10. The chimneys are of cut and moulded brick; the archways are vaulted with fan tracery vaulting; the large windows of the hall are traceried and cusped; everything in its main outline is Gothic.

  11. Under these flat roofs and white domes and long black archways of bazaars three hundred thousand folk are swarming.

  12. I remember the last visit we paid to those friends, and our departure from the Yamen in the brilliant moonlight, whilst huge lanterns lighted our path through the archways and great gateways.

  13. As our barge rounded a bend in the canal, under the archways of dangling colored lights, the festival spread before us.

  14. Bridges crossed the lanes; archways of lights spanned them at intervals.

  15. The slaans leaped away from the Earth men, who were glad enough to let them go--rushed for the archways of the pavilion.

  16. We passed slowly through it, under archways of dangling colored lights, around a sharp bend and came upon the Water Festival.

  17. Through the southern of these archways we step into the western transept, the Baptistery of the cathedral, where stands a font of modern date.

  18. The more ancient masonry is for the most part completely hidden by the newer, but the tops of the original archways remain in full view to show how much they have been contracted by this encasing stonework.

  19. This seems to have happened at Britford, near Salisbury, where archways remain on both sides near the east end of the nave.

  20. These were entered by archways pierced in the centre of the lateral walls.

  21. Remove the strip, and one side of the foundation will be marked ready for the twelve archways to be cut out.

  22. Cut arches in this platform with the aid of the same guiding strip of open archways after first cutting off three additional openings to make it fit the new box.

  23. Repeat the markings on each of the four sides of the box foundation, cut open the archways as you cut those in the strip and you will have made a garden foundation like the first story of Fig.

  24. Triumphal archways with memorial tablets and pedestals of carved lions are befitting portals to a really noble work.

  25. The archways have been erected by command of the Emperor, but at the expense of their relatives, to the memory of virtuous widows who have refused to remarry, or who have sacrificed their lives on the death of their husbands.

  26. Now the pursuers' voices sounded far-off, under the echoing archways of the Plaza.

  27. The archways gave entrance into an oblong court or hall, about 80 feet long, by sixty feet wide, on which opened by a wide doorway the main room of the building.

  28. Within the archways are halls or porches of different depths, the central one of the three being the shallowest.

  29. To the right the open space is somewhat broader, and three dark archways give access to as many passages, leading in radiating directions and under the old houses to the streets beyond.

  30. Inside, vast archways support a magnificent line of very modern quays, bordered by warehouses on a scale that would do honor to Marseilles or to Liverpool.

  31. There are Roman remains in the neighborhood of the citadel, and the walls of the town, with the massive archways of its gates, are well worthy of remark.

  32. It was built of white stone, the walls being perforated by several tall archways that supplied the place of both windows and doors.

  33. Arriving at one of the central archways the band of sea maidens separated, Princess Clia and Merla leading Trot and Cap'n Bill into the palace, while the other mermaids swam swiftly away to their own quarters.

  34. Between the double archways of the gate is a red-sandstone memorial tablet, placed there by Lord Napier of Magdala, upon which is inscribed the names, rank, and regiment of those who took part in the forlorn hope.

  35. Rows of splendid oaks line the streets, and form fine archways of green, giving a delicious shade.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "archways" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.