Sentence examples for immense dome from inspiring English sources

Standing on the grounds of a farm on the island, I spotted an immense dome rising above the tall grasses — an adult tortoise.

The place we anchored that night was blessed with two waterfalls and an immense dome of granite reminiscent of El Capitan in Yosemite.

Here the Madonna leans toward the Christ Child like a mother (albeit a very dignified mother) on a picnic; the graceful, fully rounded figures occupy an immense dome of crystalline, blue-skied space that stretches out behind them.

A broad delta of converging tracks sliced right through the city center and under the back door of the state capitol — a luminous palace of white marble crowned by an immense dome that looked like nothing so much as an extravagant tombstone against the surrounding desolation.

The heart of Smirke's design, a large internal quadrangle, was roofed over in the 1850s with an immense copper dome to create the famous Reading Room, in which Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital.

Unlike the Hagia Sophia, the mosque's immense central dome is not divided by galleries or even aisles, so the effect of a floating cupola is even more dramatic.

Its immense copper dome is the first thing seen when approaching Annapolis by land, air or sea.

The works range from acrylic and resin volumes reminiscent of Donald Judd's work to an immense half-dome of deep red wax and paint kept in shape by a built-in slow-moving scraper.

An immense white inflatable dome encased Lenin's Tomb, sealing it off for structural repairs.

Timur's most lasting memorials are the Timurid architectural monuments of Samarkand, covered in azure, turquoise, gold, and alabaster mosaics; these are dominated by the great cathedral mosque, ruined by an earthquake but still soaring to an immense fragment of dome.

There was also an immense chocolate and raspberry dome dubbed the Cafe Pushkin (pictured below).