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Example sentences for "terrace"

Lexicographically close words:
teron; teros; terpsichorean; terque; terra; terraced; terraces; terracing; terracotta; terracottas
  1. We did so, and walked up and down the terrace that lies under the castle windows.

  2. I come out on a terrace with a huge flight of steps which leads to a lower portion of the city.

  3. The covered passage opened at one end on one of the steep streets of the Adelphi, and at the other on a terrace overlooking the sunset-coloured river.

  4. SIX -- The Head of Caesar THERE is somewhere in Brompton or Kensington an interminable avenue of tall houses, rich but largely empty, that looks like a terrace of tombs.

  5. As she ran down the open stretch of hillside between her villa and the little town, she saw the lights blaze out upon the terrace of Monte Carlo.

  6. She thought only of Callon upon the terrace of Monte Carlo.

  7. The waiters went out on to the terrace and lifted him up and carried him away.

  8. These were the lights upon the terrace of Monte Carlo.

  9. Pamela saw him speak to one or two people, and then mount the terrace steps towards the town.

  10. His eyes turned to the glowing terrace upon his right, and to the red signal-lamps below the terrace.

  11. Yet so short was the interval of time that they could hardly have reached the terrace through the open window had they sprung up at the first sound of disturbance.

  12. For suddenly there had risen before her mind the picture of a terrace high above a gorge dark with cypresses.

  13. She heard a young girl prophesying success upon that terrace with no less certainty than Millicent had used.

  14. Later on perhaps, in after years, she might in her musings return to that terrace and the speculations they indulged in, and the fairy palaces they built, with an envy of the ignorance and the high thoughts of youth.

  15. The Mediterranean lay dark and quiet far below, the terrace of Monte Carlo glowed, and the red signal-lamps pointed out the way to Paris.

  16. Would Madame take luncheon in the room, or on the terrace at the back over the sea?

  17. I looked at the City and saw the familiar outline of the Terrace and Château Frontenac and, over all, the Citadel, one of my favourite haunts in times past.

  18. We passed the Terrace where cheer after cheer went up from the black line of spectators crowded against the railing.

  19. In the meantime, however, Higson, with the runaway seamen, whom he had persuaded to follow him, made a dash at that part of the terrace where the ladies were collected.

  20. It was a lovely spot, with streams gushing down from the side of the steep heights above the house, while the wide terrace in front afforded ample room for exercise.

  21. A mountain crowned by a ruined castle overlooks abroad terrace which commands a fine view of mountain and plain.

  22. A Mousterian type of implement is recorded by Commont from the later (younger) loess of the third terrace at S.

  23. The Taubach strata have yielded nothing comparable to these, nor to the Trogontherium (or Mimomys) of the high-level terrace gravel.

  24. The other animals mentioned clinch the evidence for the Pliocene resemblance, and (at latest) the early Pleistocene antiquity of the Mauer Sands and the high-level terrace gravels.

  25. The formation of the High Terrace drift is earlier than the date of arrival of the 'Siberian' invasion of Britain by certain Voles.

  26. It may be questioned whether Mr Hinton is right in assigning only Acheulean implements to the high-terrace gravels.

  27. At the bottom of the terrace it was impenetrably dark.

  28. It stands on a high terrace in one of the choicest parts of Jackson Park, commanding a splendid view of the grounds.

  29. Between it and the lagoon is a terrace devoted to out-door exhibits of flowers and plants, including large tanks for various lilies and other aquatic plants.

  30. But in his waywardness he had lost sight of the window, and so walked back upon the terrace again, pretending, even to himself, that he wished to gather a handful of blush roses while the leaves were wet with that diamond light.

  31. Barbara Stafford turned from the terrace as the man came up; the twilight clung around her like a veil; there she stood motionless--she had been searching in vain for the door latch.

  32. Sharply at four the staccato notes of "Assembly" rang across the terrace as Polly sounded the call upon her bugle.

  33. She did not mean to be an eavesdropper, but she thought all the girls from the west wing were down on the terrace where she had left them that perfect May night.

  34. It was then after nine o'clock but during these long, sultry evenings Mrs. Vincent allowed the girls to remain upon the terrace until ten.

  35. When Nelly left her father she stopped on the terrace to talk a few minutes with the girls.

  36. Presently he returned, accompanied by a brown-bearded sergeant, who recognised Langton as having been witness in a motor-car accident in Cumberland Terrace a couple of months before.

  37. When his soul spoke through the music it would not be, so he assured himself, to such chatterers as gathered on the terrace of the Savoy Restaurant.

  38. Do you suppose that I might use your terrace for a background and have that big chair, the one with the high back?

  39. And a green grasshopper crossed the terrace in four great leaps, almost scraping Satan's ear in a fashion which might easily have been fatal to the insect.

  40. For, coming purposefully up the terrace steps, were four men they had seen before and had very good cause to remember for the rest of their lives.

  41. Rupert reached behind him and closed the screen before coming to the head of the terrace steps.

  42. Ricky had been working with the morning-glory vines about the terrace steps, young Sam standing attendance with a rusty trowel and one of the kitchen forks.

  43. The blossoms on the morning-glory vines which wreathed the edge of the terrace were open to the sun, and the birds sang in the bushes below.

  44. Two men stood below the terrace on a garden path.

  45. Then Ricky looked up and with a cry of joy came up the terrace steps in what seemed like a single leap.

  46. Then the road made a sudden curve and they came out upon a crescent of lawn bordering upon a stone-paved terrace three steps above.

  47. And on the terrace stood the home a Ralestone had not set foot in for over fifty years--Pirate's Haven.

  48. Together the Ralestones crossed the terrace and came to stand by the front door which still bore faint scars left by Indian hatchets.

  49. The rival threw his gloves on the terrace and glared not at LeFleur but at his own backing.

  50. They weren't in the peaceful sunlight on the terrace of Pirate's Haven; they were miles farther south in the dark land of Haiti, the Haiti of more than a hundred years ago.

  51. And now it was his full intention to be seated on the terrace when the family came home.

  52. They performed sacrifice on each terrace as they ascended, and did not reach the temple until midnight.

  53. A late tea-rose nodded from the terrace railing in the languid wind.

  54. No sooner had they reached the upper terrace than the Marchesa was approached by a lively French lady who had brought some friends to see the island.

  55. Sophy felt that she had known Amaldi a long time when they rose from the little iron table on the terrace of Isola Pescatori.

  56. When he reached the lower terrace he looked up and saw Sophy and Amaldi bending together over the photographs like two children over a picture-book.

  57. In an instant the terrace swarmed with shouting people.

  58. Luigi came pattering down the third flight of steps that led to the upper terrace on which the house stood.

  59. They were talking in this rather forced, desultory fashion, when she heard Cecil's step coming fast up the terrace stairs.

  60. Sophy went out on the little terrace before the hotel to wait for his return.

  61. The Marchesa was waiting for them on the terrace of Le Vigne.

  62. They lunched on the western terrace under a pergola of star-jessamine.

  63. When he ran up the terrace steps at Villa Bianca, fifteen minutes later, he was half-blind with unreasoning fury.

  64. It was wonderful after the day's bustle to sit on the broad, flagged terrace that overlooked the Lake.

  65. A terrace along the front led by long, shallow steps to the lawns and gardens, which reached to the water.

  66. Violante was seated in her own little room, and looking from the window on the terrace that stretched below.

  67. Not waiting for an answer, Riccabocca hurried away, and with a firm step strode the terrace and approached his wife.

  68. Here he remained for the remainder of his life, never leaving the castle, and only twice moving from his own apartment to the terrace during a period of thirty-eight years.

  69. Both men, bending low, doubled along the terrace till a projecting crag separated them from the scene of the blunder.

  70. Cautiously the two fugitives made their way backward along the terrace running parallel to and above the mountain path.

  71. Little did Millicent imagine that anything bearing upon her destiny had ever been spoken or thought on that terrace or in that house.

  72. Newhaven, a solitary figure, paced up and down the terrace fronting the drive.

  73. The surface of what was once the river-plain at the period of greatest depression, would remain fringing the valley sides in the form of a terrace apparently flat, but in reality sloping down with the general inclination of the river.

  74. Everywhere this terrace would present cliffs of gravel and sand, facing the river.

  75. A range of vertical precipices, with a terrace at their base.

  76. From the terrace in front of the Crystal Palace his guns can sweep the whole range of southern suburbs.

  77. Across the other side a black and white peasant is working alone on a tiny terrace of the hill-side, a small, solitary figure, for all the world like a magpie in the distance.

  78. From the terrace just below the fortress, above the town, not behind it, we stand and look at the sunset.

  79. We left the church crowded with its kneeling host, and dropped down past the broken houses towards the omnibus, which stood on a sort of level out-look place, a levelled terrace with a few trees, standing silent over the valley.

  80. What is so curious is that this terrace or bastion is so large, like some big recreation ground, that it is almost dreary, and one cannot understand its being suspended in mid-air.

  81. Shut the door-windows of the upper terrace and go down.

  82. I never quite like the idea of your sitting out on that little terrace late in the evening with practically nothing on your shoulders.


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