How To Use Plinth In A Sentence

A telescope is normally bolted to a vast concrete plinth around which the observatory dome can rotate without touching it, and the instrument isolated from tremors.
On the front of the plinth is the single word 'Canada'. The Great Remembrance
The plinths below the columns, the arch spandrels, friezes and entablatures were enriched with carved ornament and sculpture.
She was lovely, but strangely characterless, like a classical sculpture on a plinth. A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
Appointed a marshal in 1918, on the plinth of his statue in London are the words ‘I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country.’

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Pl. LXVI -- the lower drawing on the right hand side -- the sarcophagus is shown between the columns, and above the entablature is a plinth on which the horse stands. The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 2
True structural stepped arches with cast stone plinth block, spring line bases, and keystone are the focus of the main entry courtyard beyond the cast stone stair and ramp.
London's city council recently announced a competition among sculptors to top the empty plinth with a statue.
His work is far removed from the old idea of monumental outdoor sculpture on a plinth, enhancing the panorama with solemn dignity. Times, Sunday Times
The damage to the limestone monument appears to have been carried out with a heavy instrument such as a hatchet, since there are large indentations on the remaining plinths which managed to withstand the attack.
This bas-relief was surmounted by a projecting plinth, upon which a variety of chance growths had sprung up, — yellow pellitory, bindweed, convolvuli, nettles, plantain, and even a little cherry-tree, already grown to some height. Eug�nie Grandet
Scottish master of jerry-building and of "plinths," the atmosphere was truly Scots, tea-coseys and all, while the reminiscences of Paris and The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)
The columns of these pillared porches have sixteen flutings, a plain abacus, and no plinth. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
Empty, the plinth attests to the metaphysical void once inhabited by art. Times, Sunday Times
Let the height of the capital be divided into three parts, and give one to the plinth (that is, the abacus), the second to the echinus, and the third to the necking with its congé. The Ten Books on Architecture
This was the Harley-Davidson he kept in a loft, unridden, gleaming on a plinth.
He left a huge gap, a whole grove of empty plinths with his name obliterated from each, herms with their genitalia hammered off. Fortune's Favorites
These were so popular that a specially convened government committee recommended that the plinth be used for a rolling series of temporary works. Times, Sunday Times
It is built of rubble stone with ashlar dressings on a granite plinth.
Four substantial panels (two of doubtful origin) and the predella, or figured plinth, remain.
Eventually we reach our actual destination, a field where a group of 12 women are carrying baskets filled with earth and mud from the edge of a field to a destroyed homestead where a family is using the mud to rebuild the foundation - the "plinth" - of their home. Nicholas D. Kristof
John Knox stares stonily down at me from his plinth at the top of the boneyard.
So will we discover anything deeper from the fourth plinth project than this simple appeal to the lowest common denominator? Times, Sunday Times
The pillar is not placed in the center, but at one end of the plinth, which is the case in almost every lamp of this description yet found. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
A fantastic gilded bronze bibelot featuring three sirens astride an elephant once stood on a mosaic plinth with three tiny yet accurate models of the Greek temples at Paestum.
It stands on a low and unornamented polished granite plinth in the centre of a small square of bluestone which sits flush with the surrounding turf.
Art is everywhere, in the museums, galleries or churches, but also in the stonework, on carved doorways, on plinths and balconies, and in the soft light that evening casts across the pink and russet walls and towers.
Only the foundations and stone plinths remained, defining the size and location of the pavilions.
Above the doorway, the sightless eyes of tigers stare down from their plinths; below is a signed daguerreotype of Queen Victoria.
The plinth for the statue will be some two feet higher than originally planned in the interests of health and safety and to prevent vandalism.
The gods and goddesses are overlarge for the spaces they occupy and rest somewhat uncertainly on plinths made up of diaper pattern.
But those nearer (Ralph, and George, and Rose among them) who could see not only the whole figure, but the plinth and the pedestal upon which it stood, saw that the inscription on the plinth was the same as that which had been reported as upon the first image, the one set up in the Temple at The Mark of the Beast
It will occupy the plinth next year. Times, Sunday Times
They can be customised with a range of accessories and optional extras including flat and ribbed griddles, pizza plates, splashbacks, ladle racks, hoods and plinth kits.
On one surface of the plinth is a spigot and a cup, and underneath a drip-stone, where thirsty dogs can drink. Robert Louis Stevenson
Agreement could not subsequently be reached as to which hero or monarch should be depicted and the plinth therefore remained empty for 158 years.
Thoughtfully installed in a skylit gallery, the plinthless equestrian composition is in some ways even more dramatic. Sometimes Two Is Better Than One
Thieves appear to have tried to pull the 3ft-high lion down from its plinth on top of a 12 ft stone pillar.
The plinth is a reproduction of Mr. Hussein's thumbprint, and atop is a stylized reproduction, in gold, of his Arabic initials. Daimnation!: Saddam Hussein, who struggles so
Sited on a lofty plinth, the three-storied marble structure has all the hallmarks of exquisite art.
A programme that posits the notion of leonine alpha-male big beasts of the suburban conservatory sharing tobacco-smooth post-snifter badinage - not even behind a desk, but right out in front on the crotch-fanning plinth of the low-slung sofa - suddenly became noticeably stiff‑backed and taut, its banter infused with fresh levels of glazed menace. The Guardian World News
The high plinth of the temple is a virtual tapestry of sculpture, with bands of dancing figures, animals, vegetation and other objects coming to life on its surface.
It appears that she got a hefty wallop from something heavy, which has pushed her sideways several inches over the edge of her plinth.
The colours are deftly placed, the flaunting red of the carnation answering the scarlet of the nasturtiums straggling on the plinth below.
We are happy to help them clean up the plinth of the statue.
The three central heating pump chambers are equally well-disguised by building over each a raised plinth, topped by a removable slab.
There is a small ironstone statue on a brick plinth by the gate.
The plinth becomes the very figuration of what cannot be figured.
She is walking down a Prague street, a shopping basket over her arm, to the market to buy carrots, leeks, mackerel, and passes by chance a shoe shop, and there are the red shoes in the window -- all by themselves on a little plinth raised above the lesser footwear, the price tag coyly peeking out from the base -- and she has such a powerful urge to go in and try them on that that is what she does. Tom Gregory: From Alzheimer's to Auschwitz at 32,000 Feet
Note that the pump is set on a level plinth.
Keighley town councillors say a railing around the plinth would enhance and protect the 80 year-old statue.
THE search for a hero to go on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square is over. The Sun
So will we discover anything deeper from the fourth plinth project than this simple appeal to the lowest common denominator? Times, Sunday Times
And when the tall glass doors slide open, the black concrete floor flows out to a continuous 6-foot-deep terrace, a concrete plinth that holds the house.
Externally the houses have a cut stone plinth, rendered walls to first floor level and a solid timber upper floor.
The large pieces are 68 to 76 inches tall, and, standing on low plinths, the figures are well over life-size.
This fact is inescapable, especially if you move like a stuffed sloth on a marble plinth. Times, Sunday Times
At the other end of the park were Keith Edmier's two pint-sized commemorative bronze statues of men in uniform, mounted on granite plinths.
The systyle is a temple in which the thickness of two columns can be placed in an intercolumniation, and in which the plinths of the bases are equivalent to the distance between two plinths: for example, the temple of Equestrian Fortune near the stone theatre, and the others which are constructed on the same principles. The Ten Books on Architecture
Finally, in 1838, the architect Alessandro Della Gherardesca dug a walkway called the catino around the base of the tower to expose the buried foundation steps and column plinths.
The path climbed modestly to Chunyang Hall, then descended to Shengui whose lovely wooden pavilion stands on a plinth in a three-sided courtyard.
The lighthouse stands on a plinth of rock undermined by caves, perhaps once used by smugglers.
The original plinth, and the associated pipework for the fountain, still exist, and the re-installation should be a relatively straightforward matter
The entire massive plinth and the next solid moulding above it are left with a rough surface, dented by heavy hammers and not peened to a sheen.
Mueck's newest offerings were simply presented on white wooden plinths.
The French have been playing like a stuffed poodle on a marble plinth, but should we beware this wounded animal? Times, Sunday Times
Complementing the bookmatched crotch mahogany veneers of the panels and drawer faces are the cross-grained rosewood facings of the finial plinth, doorframes, and drawer banding.
It is built of stock brick from various sources, and the piers are decorated by stone impost bands and rendered plinths.
But if a podium is to be built on three sides round the temple, it should be so constructed that its plinths, bases, dies, coronae, and cymatiumare appropriate to the actual stylobate which is to be under the bases of the columns. The Ten Books on Architecture
The original Mosque has undergone extensive repairs, but traces of the original construction are seen in the plinth, the columns and the roof which are in the old traditional styles of Hindu temples.
However, the statue was only completed a month before his death and the plinth, which is made of Craigleith sandstone, was not ready until after his death in February 1685. Undefined
From the malleable scrapings Antonin fashioned plinths, column tops and pedestals.
The enormous plinth on which the museum stands responds to a considerable fall-off in grade across the site.
These were so popular that a specially convened government committee recommended that the plinth be used for a rolling series of temporary works. Times, Sunday Times
To reinforce this idea, stone paving and a series of plinths, platforms and benches, which create settings for sculpture and places to sit during the day, are also lit during the evenings.
FIRST there was the vacant fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. Times, Sunday Times
The granite plinth provides a base for the limestone to sit on.
The world's only two-legged equestrian statue has been pushed and pulled almost off its plinth.
I was horrified when I got up to find the statue missing from its plinth.
It will be unveiled during the interdenominational service on a new plinth and is the first permanent memorial to the dead.
The statues' plinths still remain on either side of the tower, nevertheless.
Both pictures depict a glass vase set on a stone plinth with variegated tulips, daffodils, irises and other flowers.
His work is far removed from the old idea of monumental outdoor sculpture on a plinth, enhancing the panorama with solemn dignity. Times, Sunday Times
You will also need to buy a suitable plinth and an arm. Times, Sunday Times
Isolated from the main house further inland, it stands on a stone plinth set into the tidal waters of the River Ilen, near Skibbereen in County Cork.
The Parliament building is a huge and austere '20s stripped Classical block a la Tengbom in pink Finnish granite by J. S. Siren, massively colonnaded and raised on a daunting stepped plinth.
The systyle is a temple in which the thickness of two columns can be placed in an intercolumniation, and in which the plinths of the bases are equivalent to the distance between two plinths: for example, the temple of Equestrian Fortune near the stone theatre, and the others which are constructed on the same principles. The Ten Books on Architecture
His model of the empty plinth includes a safety net. Times, Sunday Times
On descending from the tower, we passed through storehouses filled with broken remains of figures, capitals, plinths, and other fragments disentombed from the Forum, etc. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
Whether or not these beakers were used for wine is doubtful but 18th century French beakers with their characteristic plinth feet may well have been.
a shopping basket over her arm, to the market to buy carrots, leeks, mackerel, and passes by chance a shoe shop, and there are the red shoes in the window -- all by themselves on a little plinth raised above the lesser footwear, the price tag coyly peeking out from the base -- and she has such a powerful urge to go in and try them on that that is what she does. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
I'm excited at the prospect of turning the fourth plinth into a giant cake stand. Times, Sunday Times
The 12 ft high statue and plinth, with its magnificent views of the Trossachs towards Loch Lomond, can be seen from miles around.
For 100 days, around the clock, the plinth was a small stage on which 2,400 persons, one per hour, expressed themselves. Magnificence Democratized
We will have to have our Remembrance Day service around the empty plinth. Times, Sunday Times
An empty plinth is an empty plinth. Times, Sunday Times
Against the terracotta house walls, lined with white hebe hedges ‘that look absolutely fabulous in late summer’, are places left for plinths.
Glittering on the seventh parapet, on a plinth of gold and diamantine, sat the vessel itself, a perfect sphere of shiny silvery metal. Do Comets Dream?
A huge marble bust of Marx stands on a plinth at one end of the grave, which also contains the remains of his wife Jenny.
The cast concrete plinths supporting the dark-stained posts were designed after similar ones in a temple in Kyoto.
The barn has a tiled roof, is weatherboarded, and has a flint plinth.
A single sculptural container raised up on a stone plinth can be the focal point of the garden. Times, Sunday Times
It appears that she got a hefty wallop from something heavy, which has pushed her sideways several inches over the edge of her plinth.
Other suggestions: paint the metal stairs a warmer colour, carpet the lounge with a natural-coloured rug so lounge and stairs are more in keeping, and install some plinths to mount the garden sculptures and make a feature of them.
He understood how to contrast wide unbroken surfaces with certain important parts of his _ensemble_, such as cornices, plinths, and especially doorways. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1
He is the undisputed star turn, despite the dodgy disc and descent from golf's marble plinth. Times, Sunday Times
This fact is inescapable, especially if you move like a stuffed sloth on a marble plinth. Times, Sunday Times
Writers unmercifully poked fun at the mass-produced Civil War statues on their nearly identical plinths, or World War I doughboys standing awkwardly in town squares.
The plinth, which is very massive, rises even higher above that of the west front here than it does there, and the buttresses project over 8 feet at the base and are of three stages, and the gables on these have their sides straight, their eaves everywhere continued to the wall, and their corners enriched with heads, but on the second stage only. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric
The cake looked like the Colosseum on a marble plinth. Times, Sunday Times
Four substantial panels (two of doubtful origin) and the predella, or figured plinth, remain.
You will also need to buy a suitable plinth and an arm. Times, Sunday Times
It is built of rubble stone with ashlar dressings on a granite plinth.
Similarly, the plinth should be a simple and elegant solution - like evolutionary thinking. Undefined
It comprised two massive rough-hewn stones forming a twelve-foot high plinth capped with an eighteen-foot bronze statue of Alfred.
It stands on a low and unornamented polished granite plinth in the centre of a small square of bluestone which sits flush with the surrounding turf.
The birds he depicts are stiff, seemingly stuffed, mounted on plinths and piled in heaps.
The beige moulded shop-fittings remained, but the knickers and negligees made way for campaign posters and canvassing rotas and, on a plinth where the cash register once stood, a vase of red roses, which proceeded to bloom.
The path climbed modestly to Chunyang Hall, then descended to Shengui whose lovely wooden pavilion stands on a plinth in a three-sided courtyard.
Notable neoclassical features include the square plinth base, flame finial, and engraved swags of flowers draped from rosettes.
A small, besuited, stocky figure in a fez, he stands atop a little plinth on a traffic circle where the honking cars go round. Egypt: one year on, the young heroes of Tahrir Square feel a chill wind
The concrete car park is clad in black granite offcuts that are laid as coursed rubble to form a rough dark plinth to the red and white terrace above.
It is as if we are being presented with, in the plinth, the weight of a materiality which has escaped figuration.
Normally he was there on the left as you go in, on a kind of proprietorial plinth.

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