Sentence examples for old edifice from inspiring English sources
We ran into old friends at the security checkpoint; tried out the new, shiny food stands at the modern Stadium; and were glad to see that Monument Park and other vestiges of the old edifice were still extant, even though some features were in different places and seemed, as in the case of Monument Park, squeezed in and lacking their former grace.
The grand waiting room would be named "Moynihan Hall" after late U.S. senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who was first to propose the transformation of the old edifice into a space for travelers.
The original keeper's quarters, then referred to as a "dilapidated old edifice", was replaced in 1879.
It's all about smashing the old edifice, the monolith of rock and roll".
The old edifices are falling faster than the state's Confederate statues — but those are under scrutiny in Richmond these days, too.
No wonder "La Ville Rose," so named for the dusty rose-hued bricks in many of its old edifices, is France's fastest-growing city.
El Centro, which has the most impressive old edifices as well as many of the city's prominent churches, was the first area to be refurbished.
Murphy's expansive history includes not only the Spanish Inquisition but its 700-year-old edifice, and shows how the mind-set and machinery of the Inquisition later surfaced in Stalin's Russia, Argentina's military junta and 21st-century America.
In "God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World" Mr. Murphy functions much like that guide, offering readers a tour of the Inquisition's nearly 700-year-old edifice.
It was probably impossible to stage anything muted in the Grand Palace, a massive, 162-year-old edifice whose halls were restored and thoroughly gilded at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars during Mr. Yeltsin's tenure.
Perched at the highest point in town, its chapel is a century-old edifice of granite and stained glass where billionaire moguls and Wall Street financiers worship alongside hairdressers and immigrant cooks.
