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

In 1990, the ziggurat reopened as L.A.’s first factory outlet mall, and in 2005, the Citadel launched a grand-reopening after adding an additional 126,000 square feet of retail space.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023

It featured a wax cast of his body in a suit, painted pink, with a blackened tongue and a cutoff right hand, housed in a ziggurat.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2021

"They're up early. C'mon, we need to get to the ziggurat."

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda