PEDIMENT in a Sentence

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1. One broken baluster is placed on the pediment like a fractured leg.
2. Temple sat on the pediment of a pillar, leaning back, his cap pulled down on his sleepy eyes.

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 Meanings and Examples of PEDIMENT
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pediment
 n.  a triangular gable between a horizontal entablature and a sloping roof
Classic Sentence:
1  Temple sat on the pediment of a pillar, leaning back, his cap pulled down on his sleepy eyes.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
2  Likewise, the architect's best efforts had failed to cause the pediment to stand in the centre of the building, since the proprietor had had one of its four original columns removed.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
3  One broken baluster is placed on the pediment like a fractured leg.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
4  The front part of the temple had long ago been overgrown with thick bushes; only the pediments of the columns could be seen above the dense green.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
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