vaulting

How To Use vaulting In A Sentence

• It is characterized by heavy, load-bearing masonry, the round-headed arch and its derivatives, the groin, and barrel vaulting.
• Originally, the small church was equipped by elaborate vaulting and plasterwork, and the pavement was covered by tiles.
• Without vaulting or trusses, Yemeni traditional architecture had to rely on the usable length of palm, acacia or tamarisk trunks for spans.
• The man fled, vaulting a ticket barrier and sprinting for the platform.
• arches and vaulting
• Fourteen columns of colored marble sustain a domed ceiling of gilded cedar, with an exterior deambulatory under a tunnel-vaulting also roofed with cedar. In Morocco
• Officers followed Weldrick's Alfa Romeo car to the middle of the Humber Bridge where it stopped and the driver was seen vaulting the safety railings before jumping off the bridge.
• In the States years ago and long before anyone ever heard of adjustable cables, a small version of the vaulting horse was called the buck.
• A bold and ingenious treatment of the vaulting shaft of the tower groining is used on these piers; on the western ones the shafts stop upon the ends of the hood moulding. The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains
• At the top of the spiral staircase is the “Homme au panier,” a statue 4 feet 6 inches in height, on a pedestal at the topmost step, representing a manciple or serving-man bearing a basket on his right shoulder, out of which spring, like so many stems of wheat, nearly a score of vaulting ribs for the roof that closes in the staircase. The South of France—East Half