MOSAIC in a Sentence

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For MOSAIC, below is one of 9 sentences:
Inside the store, a greasy marble soda-fountain with an electric lamp of red and green and curdled-yellow mosaic shade.

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 Meanings and Examples of MOSAIC
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mosaic
 n.  picture design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into surface
Classic Sentence:
1  Inside the store, a greasy marble soda-fountain with an electric lamp of red and green and curdled-yellow mosaic shade.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  Around the fountain ran a walk, paved with a mosaic of pebbles, laid in various fanciful patterns; and this, again, was surrounded by turf, smooth as green velvet, while a carriage-drive enclosed the whole.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence:
1  Archaeologists have worked for years to piece together the huge mosaic.
2  Major works of painting, sculpture, mosaic and architecture were examined in situ in Venice.
3  Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
4  The mayor compared the city to a beautiful mosaic made up of people of every race and religion on earth.
5  Mrs. Fairfax came in, breaking up by her entrance the fiery mosaic I had been piercing together, and scattering too some heavy unwelcome thoughts that were beginning to throng on my solitude.
6  She picked out all the fabrics and furniture and designed the patterns for the tile mosaics in her bathroom.
7  Some of the mosaics postdate this period.