At four o'clock precisely, the shutter of the high window up yonder, under the ogive arch of the nave, will open.
The ogive arch of the nave compels you to raise your eyes to a great height.
It is easy to describe any given ogive which has been based upon measurements, so that it may be drawn from the description with approximate truth.
We can lay down the ogive of any quality, physical or mental, whenever we are capable of judging which of any two members of the group we are engaged upon has the larger amount of that quality.
We spied a hovel with a Gothic portal; further on was an old wall with an ogive door; a leafless bush swayed there in the breeze.
Beyond the second enclosure, in a ploughed field, one can recognise the ruins of a chapel by the broken shafts of an ogive portal.
The wall of the upper tier has openings for several windows of an ogive form, above which a gallery runs all along; two round-windows take up the third tier.
Soft silken divans reclined against the walls, pierced with several ogive doors that were half closed with curtains fringed with pearls.
Elaborate sculptures ornamented its facade and the lintels of its numerous windows and architrave, which consisted of three ogive arcades sustained by elegant sheaves of stone columns.
A portion of the mob penetrated into the outer yard which separated the square from the facade of the castle, and where a low stoop led up to an ogive door.
All the evidence tends to prove that the ogive came from the Levant, and without the ogive Gothic architecture could never have developed.
Each of the subterranean cells contains a row of pillars, surmounted by ogive arches.
Religion was not neglected in those days; in the chapel one admires the beautiful ogive of the nave.
Imagine an incomprehensible fall of shadow and light wherein the colored rays from the ogive windows meet and are merged with the dusk of the nave; where the gleam of the lamps struggles and is lost in the gloom of the sanctuary.
The two again fell silent and again heard the quavering voices of the old women telling of witches and hobgoblins, the whistling wind which shook the ogive windows, and the mournful, monotonous tolling of the bells.
It was the wind complaining as it broke upon the edges of the battlements and towers, and shuddering as it passed the colored panes of the ogive windows.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ogive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: apse; arcade; arch; archway; camber; cove; cupola; dome; igloo; keystone; span; vault; vaulting
