How to Use rotunda in a Sentence

rotunda

noun
  • We stood inside the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building.
  • The pair passed through a makeshift hallway and entered a rotunda.
    — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
  • Now, a cozy entry opens to a rotunda with black-and-white-marble floors.
    — Nancy Hass, ELLE Decor, 21 May 2018
  • The room fell silent as three knocks on the rotunda door marked Carter’s arrival.
    — Bill Barrow, The Denver Post, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The liquor shelves at the bar are made from part of the old building's rotunda, Chris said.
    — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Step beneath a soaring rotunda where art still echoes.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • During the last week of the program, the art is on display in the main rotunda of the school.
    — Lyndi McNulty, Baltimore Sun, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Gary walked around the back of the building and climbed the stairs walking right into the rotunda.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 22 Dec. 2021
  • As for those men, their clubroom was on the opposite side of the main rotunda.
    — Dallas News, 24 May 2022
  • The front doors open to a rotunda foyer with the staircase leading to guest bedrooms.
    — David Lyons, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Outside is a rotunda that will be open to visitors 24 hours a day.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Bond will lie in state in the rotunda for 24 hours following the service.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2025
  • Shaw was in the Capitol rotunda for 14 minutes with his teenage son.
    — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Her impact can still be felt in Knoxville, and the Hall’s rotunda is named in her honor.
    — Mike Anthony, courant.com, 9 June 2018
  • The building would be round, and all of the inmates’ cells would face a central rotunda, where the guards would be stationed.
    — Kelsey McKinney, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2025
  • The 30-foot-high structure funnels sunlight from the rotunda’s glass and cast-iron dome.
    — Stacy Meichtry, WSJ, 17 May 2021
  • The dome, which had been only a tiny dot from far away, now was a massive tiled rotunda with blue and yellow chevrons sitting atop the roof.
    — Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The more than 5,600-square-foot main house is entered through a wide half-circle rotunda.
    — Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Warm woods and white walls mix in the living spaces, and the kitchen adds some flair with a brick fireplace and breakfast nook topped by a rotunda.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Video showed her in the rotunda and inside the Capitol Crypt and elsewhere.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The yelling, banging, and chaos echoed through the rotunda and rattled the doors of the 144-year-old building.
    — Mallory McMorrow, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Alas, the show, which spans all floors of the Guggenheim’s rotunda and its two towers, offers enough other works, too.
    — Mary Wang, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2017
  • So the staffers just drove over their own garden rotunda in the center circle of the driveway, destroying the grass and bricks around it.
    — Lori Nickel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The Chen piece, which hangs high over the museum’s rotunda, is a writhing 65–foot-long dragon.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Each inductee received a medallion and a plaque that will be placed inside the Hall of Fame rotunda.
    — Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2019
  • The sign had been in the rotunda but had been moved into a vestibule to clear room for a public event, according to Kooyenga.
    — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Corman said of the lawmakers who had gathered on the steps inside the Capitol rotunda for the event.
    — Logan Hullinger, Philly.com, 12 June 2017
  • And each chamber gathered midday in the rotunda to drop rubber band balls the size of cantaloupes from high in the Capitol dome.
    — Brian Eason, The Denver Post, 10 May 2017
  • At the same time as the rally played out in the rotunda, the mayor was holding a press briefing in the Blue Room across the hall.
    — Michael Gartland, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The rotunda with a 24-foot ceiling is perfect for a piano, said O’Gorman.
    — Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2020

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