nave
Example Sentences
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As a viewer marches down the nave toward the high altar, the apostles also come into view, on a trompe l’oeil ledge.
Outright splendor gives way to bold-faced promotion in an annex gallery, housed in MAD’s grand, soaring nave.
The Monreale mosaics were meant to impress, humble and inspire the visitor who walked down the central nave, following the fashion of Constantinople, the capital of the surviving Roman empire in the east.
From BBC
For example, archaeologist Cédric Moulis of the University of Lorraine painstakingly reassembled dozens of wedge-shaped stones called voussoirs recovered from the collapsed vaulted ceiling over the nave to glean insights into their mechanical properties.
From Science Magazine
More than 6,000 tonnes of steel were used to build the nave.
From Seattle Times
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