(1) Narrow paths weave among moss-covered ornate arches and towers on the 80-acre site, and huge abstract sculptures and staircases lead nowhere, but up to the sky.
(2) At the famed Winter Palace , formerly the home of the Egyptian royal family, ornate gold-and-glass chandeliers hang over empty brocade sofas, awaiting visitors.
(3) Next to an ornate Renaissance gate, the hall where the "English comedians" first acted still stands.
(4) The booming Bollywood music beckoned a stream of families, wearing ornate saris and sharp kurtas, fragrant plates of samosa chaat in hand, toward the stage, replete with an extravagant display of lights and visuals.
(5) Parts of the city already feel like a war zone: its ritziest hotel is eerily deserted though many rooms are being used as offices by international agencies drawn by the deepening crisis – blue helmets and flak jackets piled up on Persian carpets in an ornate reception room, white UN vehicles parked behind the blast barriers outside.
(6) It remains unclear how the attacker made his way past the armed guards protecting the building, but he got as far as the ornate Hall of Honour.
(7) These features are characteristic of sea urchin (Echinoderm) spines which are composed of ornately formed calcite crystals covered by an epithelium.
(8) What makes it such a strange breed is how it transcends those ornate, gothic novel trappings to explore, you know, real themes.
(9) The salmon-pink house, three storeys high with ornate balustrades, sits behind a large metal gate.
(10) He also bowed out of Carrier's in Camden Passage in 1984, retreating to Marrakesh and his ornately restored mansion there.
(11) Resembling an ornate garden maze from above, suqakollos – or waru-warus – are a patterned system of raised cropland and water-filled trenches.
(12) No phone line, no bathroom generally, coal heating only from huge tiled heaters in the corner of each room (and the yucky shitty yellow ones, not the lovely ornate versions you see in palaces).
(13) Had the Elysée's salles des fêtes been packed to the ornate rafters and chandeliers with French media, the sleight of hand might have worked.
(14) Interesting results regarding the polymorphic state of one or more pairs of macro-chromosomes in three species of colubrid snakes viz., Ahaetulla nasutus, Chrysopelea ornate and Acrochordus granulatus were obtained.
(15) There are so many empty buildings like this one in central London.” The building dates back to the 1820s and has numerous listed features including many ornate, hand-carved fireplaces.
(16) The spines of sea mice, on the other hand, are chitinous in nature; they are also much finer and lack the ornate symmetry of sea urchin spines.
(17) It sat in front of the ornate gold cross, immediately facing the Dean of Westminster as he prayed before the altar, and unambiguous in what it signified.
(18) In 1953, West German children began to be taught "lateinische Ausgangschrift", an ornate but more legible joined-up script, which roughly translates as "model Latin script".
(19) Standing beneath an ornate 17th-century chandelier, a self-assured Khan declared: “My name is Sadiq Khan and I’m the mayor of London.”He said he wanted the ceremony to take place in the cathedral as a reflection of his intent to represent “every single community” as a “mayor for all Londoners”.
(20) Sitting in an ornate meeting room across the street from the former army headquarters still in ruins from the Nato bombing, Vučić said such criticisms failed to take account of how he had changed.
Palace
Definition:
(n.) The residence of a sovereign, including the lodgings of high officers of state, and rooms for business, as well as halls for ceremony and reception.
(n.) The official residence of a bishop or other distinguished personage.
(n.) Loosely, any unusually magnificent or stately house.
Example Sentences:
(1) The former Stoke City manager Pulis had reportedly been left frustrated by the club failing to push through deals for various players he targeted to strengthen the Palace squad.
(2) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
(3) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
(4) In a statement, a St James's Palace spokesman said: "The Duchess of Cambridge has been discharged from the King Edward VII hospital and will now head to Kensington Palace for a period of rest.
(5) For Kevin Phillips, just like Wilfried Zaha, this might have been his final act as a Crystal Palace player.
(6) Buckingham Palace was drawn into the dispute when it was revealed that Pownall had sought advice from the Lord Chamberlain, a key officer in the royal household, on the potential misuse of the portcullis emblem due to it being the property of the Queen.
(7) The 180-acre imperial palace appears to send ripples through the surrounding urban grain like a rock thrown into a pond, forming the successive layers of ring-roads.
(8) A couple of years ago, I interviewed a cleaner at Buckingham Palace .
(9) The palace and the politicians expect a smooth succession to the reign of Charles III, even though he is a man who has spent his life demonstrating how woefully unqualified he is to be a constitutional king.
(10) Watford confirm signing of Uruguay defender Miguel Britos from Napoli Read more Gestede, 26, saw a move to the Premier League fall through in January after Blackburn turned down an offer from Crystal Palace.
(11) A Benn family spokesperson said: "At the suggestion of the Speaker of the House of Commons and by agreement with the Lords Speaker, Black Rod and the dean of Westminster Abbey, an approach was made by Black Rod to the palace for agreement that Mr Benn's body rest in the chapel of St Mary Undercroft on the night before his funeral.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Queen hosts the banquet in the Buckingham Palace ballroom.
(13) We have chosen Essid because he is independent and has experience in the areas of security and the economy,” the speaker of Congress, Mohamed Naceur, said outside the congressional palace.
(14) Water supplies are restricted to the wealthy few, and landmark buildings such as the presidential palace remain wrecked nine years after the end of the war.
(15) But every time they did, Palace broke away and scored.
(16) RTL said Trierweiler had let it be known that she had not had a "nervous breakdown" when Hollande confessed to his alleged affair with Julie Gayet, 41, hours before Closer magazine published its "special edition" claiming Hollande had been secretly leaving the Elysée Palace for secret trysts with the actor.
(17) You think you’re back in the game at 1-1, but Crystal Palace are a strong team.
(18) At the famed Winter Palace , formerly the home of the Egyptian royal family, ornate gold-and-glass chandeliers hang over empty brocade sofas, awaiting visitors.
(19) While arguments will persist over the rights and wrongs of publishing, what seems certain is that the incident will inflame already tense relations between Buckingham Palace and the European media.
(20) As a suitor for the hand of a beautiful princess, you’ll have to overcome the royal family, the palace guards and rival players to deliver your love letter.