ziggurat

How To Use ziggurat In A Sentence

• Shellfire damaged the brickwork of the ziggurat at Ur, which was constructed in 2100 B.C.
• Meanwhile, the owner, George Koril, kept busy constructing a fresh ziggurat of shawarma, layering slabs of thinly sliced raw beef onto a vertical spit capped by a ripe tomato.
• I've seen the wax ziggurats, the elevated boats and spare architecture.
• This piece evokes ancient architecture, in particular the ziggurat of the Assyrians.
• Here, the highly ornamental plant container, held up by a complex quatrefoil trelliswork and spilling over with flowers, forms an architectural ziggurat that is not unlike the theatrical flower beds of the landscape garden.
• Here, behind the building's exposed beams, Sze stacked scores of small white jewelry boxes into precarious ziggurats.
• Sumerian ziggurats were built of sun-baked mud bricks faced with kiln-fired clay cones to protect the vulnerable mud-bricks from the weather.
• Kiln-fired bricks were invented by the Mesopotamians to create the complex towering ziggurats of the Sumerian and Babylonian empires.
• In addition to its great arks and ziggurats, Gambee seems to have missed few of Wall Street's more picturesque chinks, corners and coigns, and the reader is led to each through angles of vision which by most definitions known to me deserve the name of artistry.
• The hall's arched interior would thus be integrated with the crescent anchored in its site, just as the opera house's circular plan was set into the circular ziggurat that Wright planned as a megastructure for the base.