Sentence examples for edifice began from inspiring English sources

Then, in late 1942, the edifice began to topple.

In general terms, that ambitious and artificial edifice began to collapse quite quickly.

No, I just leaned into the nearest pillar and shoved till the whole edifice began to quake and quake again.

This unashamedly romantic edifice began the British tradition of "sham" castles, built for picturesque rather than defensive purposes, and over the top inside and out.

In the end, however, with the papacy of John XXIII, even that rock-like edifice began to totter, and Waugh sank into what the Church considered one of the gravest sins: despair.

Fittingly, members served under an unfinished Capitol dome – construction on the cast-iron edifice began in 1855 and would not be completed until 1863 – at once a symbol of republican government striving to rise up just as fierce fighting mere miles south on the battlefields of Virginia, and elsewhere, sought to tear it down.

More invidious is when the edifice begins to warp the message.

The museum occupies the shell of the Palazzo dell'Arengario, a classic Fascist-era edifice begun in the 1930s but not completed until the 1950s.

Irregular black or blue black patches, measuring as large as 80 cm in long dimension, can be documented on the Castle edifice beginning only in the mid-1990s based on limited photographic documentation of sufficient detail.

Hillary once travelled to China -- where she said that "Women's rights are human rights" - but that's exactly where the cracks in the narrative edifice begin to form.

These massive edifices began rising in the 1890s, each one claiming the "tallest building" crown and then giving way to a successor as the world's first skyline grew until it stretched like the Himalayas across the length of Manhattan.