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Example sentences for "canopy"

Lexicographically close words:
canonries; canonry; canons; canopied; canopies; canos; canot; canots; cans; canst
  1. The canopy is neither reckoned for uncleanness or cleanness.

  2. Next came a troop of blackened acolytes, two by two, and then a canopy such as is borne over the Host, which canopy was held in travesty of homage over a beer-keg.

  3. The smoke from our funnel trailed across the purple canopy of the sky as though smeared with an inky brush.

  4. But it is usually impossible for one on the ground to see the finest blooms, which turn their faces to the sunlight above the canopy of green.

  5. Chick, slamming back the canopy and bouncing out to the surprise of his instructor.

  6. Above him an opaque canopy shuts off his view of everything else.

  7. That representation of Heaven's canopy mantling over the most holy part of our church always seems to me so very appropriate and suggestive.

  8. I found that nearly every shrine at the summit consisted of a little domed canopy of marble, covering two foot-prints of some one of the twenty-four Jaina saints (especially Par[.

  9. The branches of the baobab make a canopy of a hemispherical form, often from one hundred to one hundred and fifty feet in diameter, the outermost branches drooping till they touch the ground.

  10. A canopy of bright red material, supported on four poles, waves over her, and richly embroidered scarfs hang from it or flutter in the breeze.

  11. What under the canopy is all that hammering at the door?

  12. The world seemed to be burning up, the heavens to be melting: a star looked like a speck of blood, so that the whole canopy of heaven when visible seemed blood-spattered.

  13. Who is the baby that doth lie Beneath the silken canopy Of thy blue eye?

  14. The canopy kept pace with her, closing behind.

  15. She smiled right and left and bowed; the rapiers on either side crossed each other over her head and formed a canopy under which she walked with a dainty grace.

  16. To contribute more to the Pomp and State of this great Ceremony, a Canopy is born over the Sovereign’s Head, by Knights and Gentlemen of Quality, while he passeth in Procession, till he return to the Choir Door.

  17. We served as a canopy to shield them from the fierce rays of the sun.

  18. Now the light from the red and yellow flames fell upon a vast group of dark figures and a thousand gleaming eyes peered out of the velvety canopy around us.

  19. Washington Irving is buried in the cemetery of this church, where the river almost unseen flows under its canopy of foliage, while to the north and sloping gently down to the brook lies this ancient burying ground.

  20. We gazed under a canopy of trees and saw a blossoming jungle of shrubs and flowers that seemed to have been awakened by some more potent force than that of the sun.

  21. Here are wonderful old elms whose branches intermingle to form a canopy over the streets.

  22. Plymouth Rock itself will rest beneath a beautiful granite canopy and seems an incredible distance from the sea, and one wonders how they managed to bridge such a distance to get to shore.

  23. And now let me submit; with such a picture hung upon the canopy of the future, and who shall say it is overdrawn?

  24. Why not go out into the woods, beneath the spreading branches of the trees, or even under the uncurtained canopy of Heaven, and enjoy a grand unbending of the spirit?

  25. A large wire bell, covered with shavings and goldenrod, hung from a canopy of the same, under which the bride and groom stood to receive their guests.

  26. An orchestra of eight pieces played all through the evening, under a canopy of white cloth on the porch, the porch being carpeted and curtained like a room.

  27. The married couple may stand under a canopy made of wire covered with cotton wadding to represent snow, and wear cotton costumes, and the wife may carry a bouquet of cotton flowers.

  28. Fourthly above four hundred heads of the Latin brotherhood from the schools, before whom was carried cross and banner under a canopy with lighted wax tapers.

  29. Marie watched them until they had disappeared among the trees, and then turned on his back, staring up into the softly stirring canopy of green above him, and the little rifts of bright blue sky.

  30. He saw approaching him over the road a light open carriage with a fringed canopy and a pair of horses driven by a negro in a long white dust coat.

  31. Before the canopy is a transparent delta (equilateral triangle).

  32. This canopy they held over the king as he advanced into the town.

  33. At the same place, too, a company of the principal civic dignitaries of the town appeared, bearing a gorgeous canopy of blue silk, adorned and embroidered in the most beautiful manner with royal emblems.

  34. With their heads impaled at the corners of his canopy Alphonsus now confronts Amurack, just such another bold and arrogant conqueror as himself.

  35. The conquest is complete, and with all his enemies captives Alphonsus carries things with a high hand, threatening to add Amurack's head to those on his canopy unless that monarch consent to his marriage with Iphigena.

  36. The immense spreading leaves of the banana and thickly matted foliage of the bamboo formed a canopy that shut out every trace of light.

  37. Since the sun had set a thick layer of clouds had lined the canopy of heaven, veiling the winks of the brightest stars and the benignant light of the moon.

  38. These were followed by the priest bearing the host and sheltered by a canopy which four altar-boys carried.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "canopy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aeroplane; air; airplane; apply; azure; blanket; block; blue; canopy; cerulean; cloak; clothe; cloud; cope; cover; curtain; eclipse; ether; film; firmament; heaven; hood; hyaline; lift; mantle; mask; muffle; obscure; occult; overlay; overspread; parts; screen; scum; shade; shield; sky; superimpose; vault; veil; welkin