How to Use pediment in a Sentence

pediment

noun
  • Your secretary bookcase with the arched pediment top is a great vintage piece.
    — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 11 June 2020
  • The drawing on the label is a doorway topped by an imposing neo-Georgian pediment.
    — Providence Cicero, The Seattle Times, 20 June 2018
  • That side has arches with Art Deco pediments, while the more recent side has a simple railing.
    — Elena Gastaldo, Idaho Statesman, 24 June 2024
  • The pediments above the inner doors here include some of the most accomplished carving from the Angkor period.
    — Antonia Neubauer, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • But the pediment on the east portico (not shown in the view above) remains and its height is about four feet taller than the roof of the executive residence.
    — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Four delicate bas-reliefs in granite embellish the pediments over its four entrances.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Four massive columns support the triangular front pediment (gable), and large windows let in plenty of light.
    — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2021
  • In remembrance, Collins carved a sliver of the Jackson pediment into tiny rose petals and scattered them around the remnant.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Its grammar of columns and capitals, pediments and proportions allows a wide range of expression.
    — Myron Magnet, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Biden loves holiday lights and is the first to place a large illuminated wreath atop the pediment of the North Portico.
    — Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2021
  • The major loss is Pope’s circular music room, with its skylight, narrow vestibules, and classical arch pediments.
    — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Apr. 2018
  • At the foot of the Bowery, there’s a strange-looking postmodernist building with an arched metal door framed by slender columns and capped with a mint-green pediment.
    — Curbed, 25 May 2023
  • In a recent project that called for an eagle set in a pediment, Bedard adapted a historic example for a strikingly detailed bird.
    — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Unfortunately for the cause of intelligent discourse, his statement was erected upon a pediment of lies.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Many of the home’s original elements remain, including the fireplace, doors, windows, crown molding, baseboards, and pediments.
    — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The intricate pediment ornamentation was recreated from stamped zinc, as on the original building.
    — John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2020
  • However, tucked into one of those walls is an elegant but easily missed double door underneath a broken pediment leading to a true treasure trove filled with items that would fetch eye-popping sums at auction.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 21 May 2021
  • Instead, a curving glass sail crowns the building like a 21st century pediment, hiding the elevator and window-washing equipment.
    — Christopher Hawthorne, latimes.com, 24 June 2017
  • The graceful curves of the scrolled pediment over the front door are echoed in the foyer with the grand sweep of the staircase, a hallmark of Williams, and in the brocade pattern of the shimmering platinum wallcoverings.
    — Mark David, Robb Report, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Perched at the apex of the Hellenic pediment, just above the entrance, is an eagle (now headless) with its wings spread wide, a symbol associated with the Nabatean god Dushara.
    — Tharik Hussain, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Passersby on Oregon's Interstate 5 saw a boxy building with an out-of-scale, giant pediment hovering over six elaborate window frames.
    — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Gerardo’s, built in 1928 according to the pediment on the Third Street side of the building, has an intriguing history.
    — Donna Reiner, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2022
  • At the center of it all, perfectly aligned with the flags, columns, architraves, and pediments, was the engrossed Declaration in its altar, surmounted by a bronze eagle.
    — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
  • Its 118-foot pediments would be the largest in Washington and its seventy-two Corinthian columns were each over 53 feet high and weighed 95 tons.
    — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
  • The crown, a temple pediment with a cannonball hole in its center, was instantly recognizable on the skyline as an oversized frill — proudly unnecessary, retro, enigmatic.
    — Curbed, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The altar was flanked by two twelve-foot-high columns of green marble topped by Corinthian capitals supporting a larger, curved pediment, next to which were two oversize American flags set into floor stands.
    — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
  • Moreover, the form’s elements, from bases to columns to pediment sculpture, reflected the human body’s shape in a radical assertion of man’s presence and control, if not domination, over the landscape.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Jan. 2018
  • In the sanctuary, a replica of the Señor de Tula stands on a red marble pediment behind the altar, a replacement for the stainless-steel cross originally installed by the architects.
    — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The two-story home is both neoclassical and Colonial, boasting a perfectly symmetrical facade with four columns and triangular pediments over the windows.
    — Claudia Williams, Architectural Digest, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The biggest structural challenge of the renovation was to remove the ugly dormer and rebuild it, using Welsh slate tiles to clad the roof and Portland stone to recreate its original decorative pediment.
    — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 11 Apr. 2018

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