facade

Example Sentences

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“Brats” is very much so “about the public facade of friendship,” notes McCarthy.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

Raymond Barlow, from the council's building standards team, told BBC Scotland News that it was not possible to demolish the facade with a machine as it would cause an uncontrolled collapse.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

Every street, facade, statue and square is a window onto Prague’s long and fascinating history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

“The Complex” works instead by painstaking accretion—or rather, by erosion, recording in granular detail all the lies and violations that eat away at the Chopras’ respectable facade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Scythe Goddard stepped closer, seeming to look through Rowan’s facade to that dark, frigid place where he now dwelled.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman