cupola

Example Sentences

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The great painter replied: “Fill the cupola with gold . . . and that will still not be enough to pay its worth.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

On the hill before him, a water tower lay smashed and a cupola of a mosque was askew.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2025

On a post office, I saw a strip of asphalt shingles under a cupola that had a copper roof.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2024

You capture the beauty looking out of the cupola, but also the claustrophobia of an I.S.S. “bedroom.”

From Salon • Jan. 19, 2024

It stood well back from the rattle and bustle of Marlborough Street, with its glassy-eyed copper Indian on top of the cupola and its carved and colored lion and unicorn of Britain over the door.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes