Sentence examples for plain edifice from inspiring English sources

The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is a neat plain edifice, with a curious turret at the west end.

Similarly, the 19th-century publisher Samuel Lewis said the church was a "small plain edifice" that could hold nearly 300 people.

Mr. Saillard said he chose her because of that ability, and because her appearance — her white skin and hair — while striking, can also, at times, be as plain as beige, like the edifice of a museum.

Instead, a wavy reflection of downtown White Plains appears in the huge glass-and-steel edifice that is one of the Ritz-Carlton towers.

On the wide granite steps of the neo-Classical edifice that stands as one of our few local reminders that we 7,000 people of the Great Plains belong to a civilized modern nation, my neighbors and I trade news, contract for services and generally mix and mingle in a manner that permits us to feel like neighbors rather than strangers subject to the same weather.

The edifice is cracking.

There were blown-up photos of various Wright edifices, as well as a model of the steel-and-glass H.C. Price Tower currently under construction on an Oklahoma plain.

Today Corcoran's edifice is the Renwick Gallery.

But the whole edifice now looks rickety.

The edifice is a kind of greenhouse.

Temple, edifice constructed for religious worship.