How to Use rose window in a Sentence

rose window

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  • Joe Klug’s scenic design marvelously evokes Notre Dame’s famed rose windows — and the whole theater helps sets the mood.
    — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 4 May 2018
  • The fate of some paintings inside the structure and its three famous rose windows is still unknown.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2019
  • Its rose windows glow like gems in the darkness, akin to the effect at the cathedral’s Gothic contemporary, Notre-Dame de Paris.
    — Benjamin Ramm, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
  • There were countless selfies with the cathedral’s twin towers and rose windows as the try-to-beat-this Instagram backdrop.
    — Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 16 Apr. 2019
  • The church had a pair of magnificent rose windows — one facing south and another in a chapel that faces west and sparkles on an early summer evening.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 29 June 2018
  • Only the three rose windows retain much of their original glazing.
    — National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2019
  • What electrifies this solemn space is the modern rose window, illuminated by the East sun and installed in 2010.
    — Liz Robbins, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Upon arrival, visitors can take a stroll through the city center and marvel at the splendid Cathedral of Santarém before heading to the Church of Grace, a small house of worship adorned with an intricate rose window carved from a single stone.
    — Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • Among them: the rose window, the trefoil arch, as well as sophisticated dome construction and stained glass fabrication techniques — not to mention the minaret, which was likely repurposed as a bell tower by Christians.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2021
  • Commercial buildings with wood roofs will experience severe damage, metal buildings may collapse and high-rise windows will nearly all be blown out.
    — Abigail Abrams, Time, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Yves Gallet, an art historian at Bordeaux Montaigne University, oversees a group that aims to study stones that are still in place, such as the encasements that cradle the four-story-diameter rose windows.
    — Christa Lesté-Lasserre, Science | AAAS, 12 Mar. 2020
  • There are, naturally, some resplendent touches: black marble columns, a brilliant rose window and bronze chandeliers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The spire and the wood have become intertwined flash points that seem to divide French opinion not into clearly opposed ideological camps, but into myriad fragmentary alignments of opinion, as complex as one of the cathedral’s rose windows.
    — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Details – rose windows, gargoyles, flying buttresses – came gradually.
    — Mike Hughes, Cincinnati.com, 26 Apr. 2020

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