nave

Example Sentences

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Inside, the central nave is an engineering wonder that resembles a stone forest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

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 • Dec. 23, 2024

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 • Dec. 5, 2024

Born in New York City into an observant Jewish family, he owns a small timber framing business in rural New England and admits that until recently he didn’t even know what a nave was.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2024

One is a Mass he wrote for Reims Cathedral, newly rebuilt but subsequently destroyed in the French Revolution, and which, as it happens, had a complex maze set into its nave.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall