Sentence examples for rotunda from inspiring English sources
The word "rotunda" is correct and usable in written English
It is a noun which refers to a round building, typically one with a dome, or a circular space or hall with a dome or curved roof, often surrounded by a covered walkway. For example: The rotunda of the Capitol building in Washington D.C. is an iconic symbol of democracy.
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A round building, usually small, often with a dome
The sale, which was cancelled the day before, had been scheduled to take place in the rotunda of the State Supreme Court building, to raise funds to offset a $5m debt incurred (and now, apparently, refinanced) by the sometime superstar tech investor and prominent philanthropist.
Individual paintings of each word are displayed around the library's rotunda so that viewers encounter them randomly.
"We were hopeful that the law would be overturned some day, but we were completely stunned...that it came when it did," says Barbara Hall, who married her long-time partner on May 12th in the courthouse rotunda.
Sargent painted the ceiling of the rotunda in the old MFA as well as murals for the Boston Public Library.
IN THE rotunda of Alabama's state courthouse stands a block of granite engraved with the Ten Commandments.
The magnificent white rotunda of the presidential palace caved in, as did part of the parliament building, the roof and sides of the national cathedral, the offices of several international aid agencies and the Hotel Montana, a haunt for tourists.
An evergreen tree in the capitol's rotunda.
Despite early criticism one writer called the project "as incongruous and ridiculous as keeping a cow in the rotunda of the capitol building"—in 1927 Calvin Coolidge dedicated the carving, the New Englander wearing a ten-gallon hat to help him blend in.
Jefferson surveyed the site, which he could view in the distance from his mountaintop, and chose the Pantheon of Rome as the model for the rotunda, the centrepiece flanked by two rows of living quarters for students and faculty.
Behind the main memorial, which was completed in time for the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising, is the Rotunda Maternity Hospital which, it is assumed, will also have to be taken over by the Garda in order to keep the Queen and the Duke safe from any line of dissident fire.
Ten years later he received another: Landing of Columbus (1842 44; Capitol Rotunda, Washington, D.C.).
