ziggurat

Example Sentences

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Sotheby’s has moved into Marcel Breuer’s 1966 modernist landmark that looks like an inverted ziggurat and once famously housed the Whitney Museum of American Art.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

I also understood that he had something in common with the builders of the world’s first ziggurat.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023

Around midnight, Henry was able to climb a ziggurat to heaven, and I imagine him watching over us, hoping that we will use the lessons that he taught when our apocalypse arrives.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023

Arquitectonica’s beachfront apartment house, the Babylon, for instance, with its multiple interwoven ziggurat wings, was condemned before it reached age 40.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2022

Gilgamesh stood on the first tier of the ziggurat, surrounded by a crackling cage of electricity.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda