How to Use dome in a Sentence

dome

1 of 2 noun
  • The team's new stadium is a dome.
  • The green eyes, the smooth dome of his head.
    — Allegra Goodman, New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2026
  • This will cause the large dome to shrink at first from the north.
    — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • If the dome light does not come on that door may have a faulty switch.
    — John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs and Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 1 Jan. 2026
  • This is just super off the dome top, top of the dome.
    — Outside Online, 21 Jan. 2026
  • What if Tom had finished his dome?
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The dome became a makeshift stage in the middle of the field.
    — Niyaz Pirani, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Use a small chipboard circle cut to the size of the dome's base.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The heat dome will flex its muscles eastward over the next few days.
    — Chris Dolce, CNN Money, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Climb walls, jump over water pits, end up in this huge concrete dome.
    — Tracee Ellis Ross, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2025
  • After the seedlings have emerged, turn off the mat and remove the dome.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 May 2026
  • The dome lid is big enough to fit a small plate for smoking meat or other foods.
    — Jessica Comstock, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Jan. 2024
  • These tiny life forms can appear thread-like, tubular, or dome-shaped.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
  • Moro Rock is one of many granite domes in the park.
    — Paul Bersebach, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Two main structural poles cross to create a dome shape that is strong and easy to set up.
    — Ben Romans, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Making the glass dome is the part that befuddles most of them.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The dome traps high pressure into one place, like a lid on a kettle.
    — Eric Lyons, CBS News, 29 June 2026
  • Once the gas cools, the system captures it again in the dome for future use.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Whether that place seems like a pleasure-dome or a panopticon is up to you.
    — Max Norman, New Yorker, 25 June 2026
  • One suite tucks beneath a soaring bóveda brick dome.
    — Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Forecasters say the heat dome that's baked the West for weeks will shift east.
    — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Its central glass dome—home to the swimming paradise—glows like a lantern at dusk.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But the dome, which the park claims is the largest freestanding hall on earth, is the star of the show.
    — Gwen McClure, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The complete set comes with a rain cover, grill grate, fire pit dome, fire pit lid, and a grilling tool.
    — Adria Greenhauff, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Aug. 2022
  • This dark dome can sit directly on a shelf or table or be mounted on a wall.
    — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Yes, the plan is to build a retractable dome at Burnham Yard.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 9 Sep. 2025
  • One falling would certainly cave your dome.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
  • Read more about the heat dome and tips on staying cool in this visual explainer.
    — Ignacio Calderon, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • The big red blog in the graphic below is the heat dome causing our current heat wave.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Be sure to get a glimpse at night, when the dome is illuminated.
    — Peter Cameron, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025

dome

2 of 2 verb
  • The muffin tops tend to dome up better, too.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The first issue was that continuous disks didn’t dome up high enough.
    — Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The skyline once delicate and domed now bristles with cranes.
    — Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • If the cake has domed in the middle, press the cake down to create a perfectly even surface.
    — Micah A Leal, Southern Living, 9 June 2023
  • The dough is tucked into itself and flipped over, leaving a perfectly smooth, domed top.
    — Alex Haddon, Twin Cities, 15 Dec. 2025
  • On the exhale, draw those ribs in, back and down, allowing the diaphragm to dome up inside the rib cage.
    — Dana Santas, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Some keyboards are domed while others curve upward toward the middle.
    — Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Ground turkey makes these domed little beauties a healthy weeknight supper.
    — Victoria Spencer, Martha Stewart, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The lined and unlined cups both yielded lovely golden brown muffins with an excellent rise and domed tops that didn’t spread.
    — Mark Marino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 26 June 2025
  • Or, stay nearby in a Clear Sky Resorts dome to watch for shooting stars from bed.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The flames are visible for miles down the city’s famous coastline, a half-moon crescent of sand that is usually domed by blue sky.
    — The Staff Of The Morning, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Not only is the glass domed, but the screen beneath it is too, creating a subtle 3D effect.
    — Brent Rose, Outside, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Traditionally, these brioche-like loaves are domed and adorned with decorative bone shapes.
    — Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The kitchen is a row of glistening steel vats, domed tops raised like permers at hair salons, set with ladles the size of human heads.
    — Jessi Jezewska Stevens, The Dial, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The sapphire crystal is domed and features an anti-reflective coating inside to avoid glare.
    — Roberta Naas, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Started in a cold oven, cookies will spread too wide, biscuits won't rise properly, and cakes can dry out or develop domed tops or an uneven crumb.
    — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
  • There is also more space surrounding each muffin top, allowing room for the muffins to dome up and bloom into temptingly round muffin tops.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Our goal was to produce muffins that were domed, had little to no spreading, and had a crisp, golden exterior and moist interior.
    — Mark Marino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 26 June 2025
  • For a touch of elegance, the hands and indexes come in 18-karat gold, while the dial is slightly domed to match the curvature of the earth.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 17 May 2023
  • The dial is then carefully domed and given a galvanic coat of gold, before translucent purple lacquer is applied by hand and fired in a kiln.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 31 May 2026
  • Google has also redesigned the display of the Pixel Watch 4 to be domed, to give the device an even more premium feel.
    — Anshel Sag, Forbes.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The tree is literally hung from the ceiling, to keep some seasonal weight off the floor, with the priceless Tiffany domed ceiling below.
    — Louisa Chu, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2023
  • The design is largely the same, except the Actua 360 display is domed for the first time, resting under the domed glass.
    — Julian Chokkattu, Wired News, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Compression packing cubes usually end up slightly domed in the center after compressing them.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The marbled, frescoed, octagonal room was domed to amplify the sound of a tinkling keys at the center, and hosted regular recitals.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Incredible day at #Shinmoedake#volcano in #Japan - explosive eruptions and ash venting as new lava dome forms in the crater.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The sun won’t rise before seven thirty, Camilla thought, as her gaze drifted bitterly over the nearby rooftops and domed churches in the distance.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Another dramatic angle of the park is found at Bar Helios on the top floor, where there’s an indoor, domed bar with views of both sides of the building.
    — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 May 2025
  • Millions of years ago, a large bubble of molten rock pushed up beneath the surface, gently doming the overlying sedimentary layers.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The scenic train ride has vintage and dome cars with views of vibrant autumn leaves and Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
    — Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2025

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