Sentence examples for catacomb from inspiring English sources

He thought of those as his catacomb days.

During the 3rd and 4th centuries, in the catacomb paintings and in other manifestations, Christians began to adapt familiar pagan prototypes to new meanings.

He may have been the founder of the present Church of San Marco, Rome, and also of another that is situated over the catacomb of Balbina on the Via Ardeatina.

In the catacomb art of the 4th and 5th centuries, the deceased was sometimes depicted on the plaster covering of the niche in which his body was laid.

The new scheme, Opening up the Soane, will lead to the full-access restoration of Soane's private rooms, crypt and catacomb, ante-room, Tivoli Recess – currently a lavatory – and a model room; for the first time since 1837, visitors will be able to pore over Soane's 80 historical architectural models, the largest collection of its kind in Britain.

A vast brick catacomb stretches into the distance as Fiona Shaw (in navy jumper and plimsolls) paces to and fro, reciting the ballad.

Working often seven days a week in catacomb-like basement offices, they have culled through some six million pages of nearly indecipherable internal intelligence documents in search of the truth.

In the town of Kagbeni, Jen and I visited a Buddhist monastery and got lost in the winding, catacomb-like streets of the old city.

…" He leads me through a catacomb-like hallway into an elaborately domed room.

One reason is that it has been shoehorned into the museum's "Inner Sanctum," a catacomb-like space perfect for telling old-school linear narratives — not so great for purportedly radical art histories.

These are catacomb-like performance spaces underneath Waterloo Station, and they exhale a suffocating clamminess that felt just right for O'Neill's portraits of stir-crazy sailors, trapped in close quarters in ships.