Sentence examples for a decaying edifice from inspiring English sources

The mansion of the title, Flem's seat of power, is a decaying edifice of past splendour that serves as a rich symbol of Faulkner's South and of Flem's eventual demise.

Like a decaying pumpkin.

A decaying factory.

A decaying warehouse has been gussied up.

First, there's a "decay of novelty".

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

It's almost a religious edifice".

But the euro zone remains a faulty edifice.

Whoever had come had built a new edifice.

Wallace Stegner spoke of a vast edifice of artifice.

It is an edifice, a genuine edifice, a handsome, Roman Revival, white terra-cotta edifice, and it isn't really very old; it was put up during the upsurge of architectural grandiosity in Brooklyn in the early nineteen-hundreds.