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flying buttress

NOUN
  1. a buttress that stands apart from the main structure and connected to it by an arch

How To Use flying buttress In A Sentence

  • Gothic architecture has a particular look: the pointed or ogival arch, ribbed vaults, rose windows, towers, and tremendous height in the nave, supported by flying buttresses.
  • The castle rose, towers and flying buttresses, one of the aunt's bobby pins with a bit of yarn for a pennant. THE SHIPPING NEWS
  • The new building resembled a mediaeval cathedral with its pointed arches, ribbed vaulting and flying buttresses.
  • Gothic architecture has a particular look: the pointed or ogival arch, ribbed vaults, rose windows, towers, and tremendous height in the nave, supported by flying buttresses.
  • All the reinforced fencing, railroad ties, and flying buttresses can keep the uphill from sliding downhill for only so long.
  • The cathedral is known for its influence on High Gothic, its flying buttresses, ribbed vaults, and multiple towers; for glass and carvings that pray and teach down the centuries.
  • Moreover, in the building of the great Gothic cathedrals many new devices were introduced, including flying buttresses.
  • She dropped suddenly from the vast, smooth-swelling miles of wheatland into the tortured marvels of the Bad Lands, and the road twisted in the shadow of flying buttresses and the terraced tombs of maharajas. Free Air
  • However, adverbs and adjectives are the foundations - and flying buttresses - of pornography and erotica.
  • These are supported by small round-arched and fluted flying buttresses topped by figurines of scroll-bearing prophets.
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