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    Use "gothic" in a sentence

    gothic example sentences

    gothic


    1. The coach deposited them at the gates of the great gothic enclave


    2. In Great Malvern near the town square just a ways down College road stood the snow laced gothic spires and frosted wintry windows of Malvern College Main Building


    3. We also visited the great gothic cathedral of Saint


    4. on the Grand Canal is one of the loveliest gothic creations


    5. I got off the tram and walked towards the slightly gothic seeming red brick building part of which was Victorian but I was going to the new part of the Infirmary that had only been finished and opened in 1910 so it was only five years old I walked on up the driveway that led to the large double doors


    6. “Why the Cathedral Monsieur it is truly a gothic representation of magnificence I would advise you to visit it if you have the time


    7. In her long cardigan, and with the Gothic windows of the


    8. King's Cross, and the tall gothic masterpiece of St Pancras station, evidence of eras - the canal era, and the railway era close behind it


    9. After making their way down four floors, they entered a series of grey stone hallways with high-arched ceilings with chandeliers hanging over stone columns in Gothic style


    10. Part of her problem was, the Gothic look she affected, as naturally as breathing, and the constant harping on Wicca, and white magic, and spells, and incantations

    11. of the Gothic Revival-style


    12. ―Could you make me a cake in the shape of a Gothic letter S?‖


    13. appeared to many as gothic spires pointed heavenward in a prayer


    14. Gothic looking with tall towers, gables crickets, pinnacles and rose windows, the building resembles a cathedral


    15. All around the ship, laser cannons were decorated in the form of gothic elves


    16. The bell tower, or campanile, was graced with a series of Catalán Gothic single lancet windows


    17. Yet always, he pointed out, remnants stayed behind when the warbands and wagons went on trek to greener fields, and in the Crimea particularly, a remnant of the Gothic nation remained until exiled by Stalin


    18. The schools were small; two or three hundred pupils, often housed in gothic Victorian mansions in which the Ballroom had been converted to a theatre, complete with elegant proscenium, adequate stage lighting and cramped dressing rooms


    19. By evening they approached The Wolf’s Fang and the Gothic spires of Coermantyr Castle


    20. They dismounted and strode within the Gothic, pinnacled structure

    21. The howls of his wolves rose from the kennels in the dungeons below the Gothic structure


    22. arched opening with a pillar in the centre, somewhat in the Gothic style, but


    23. It was a gothic style building with a tall steeple


    24. Alone in his darkening front room, Ian Nikelseer watched the dying light drape his school in spurious Gothic splendour


    25. Gothic theme would be ideal


    26. You remember, the ones dressed in that Gothic style


    27. The very tops of the spirals of the gothic cathedral could be seen from the attic terrace


    28. There were a preponderance of churches, all built like Gothic Cathedrals


    29. It was an imposing Gothic edifice and one of the most beautiful castles on the main land of Ehrenberg


    30. As they roamed happily through the historical Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque buildings with their ancient windows, ornate clocks, statues, church spires -- and the multitudes of pigeons -- Anna took great delight in telling Travis what she knew

    31. The overall impression of the security wall around the Lake Cities on the US, Canadian boarder was one of a technological Gothic revival


    32. with the stained glass and gothic arches


    33. On the tenth Christmas, when little José Arcadio was getting ready to go to the seminary, the enormous box from their grandfather arrived earlier than usual, nailed tight and protected with pitch, and addressed in the usual Gothic letters to the Very Distinguished Lady Doña Fernanda del Carpio de Buendía


    34. During the graduation cere-monies she had the impression that the parchment with Gothic letters and illuminated capitals was freeing her from a compromise that she had accepted not so much out of obedience as out of convenience, and she thought that from then on not even the insistent Fernanda would worry any more about an instrument that even the nuns looked upon as a museum fossil


    35. Keeping in tradition with gothic style, it was


    36. side was aligned with the curb in front of the gothic manor


    37. The Basilica is particularly fascinating because it represents a combination of Romance and Gothic styles


    38. The French wanted the cathedral constructed in the new Gothic style; so much of the Basilica was demolished and replaced with a Gothic version


    39. Therefore, they had to come up with a compromise between the Romance nave with its tight dimensions and the Gothic transept which was intended for a larger building


    40. The result is a bizarre combination of Romance and Gothic styles

    41. Pierre de Rochefort, the former Bishop of Carcassonne from 1300 to 1322, who was responsible for nearly all the Gothic work of the Basilica


    42. Inside the area enclosed by the fence were several platforms five or six feet off the ground, which rose on the corners on columns to exquisitely ornate Gothic roofs


    43. was largely considered in the years to come as the inventor of the Gothic


    44. " You know I used to pick on the Gothic girls at school


    45. However, soon after he clicked the proper icon, a bold, bright-red, 36-point, Franklin Gothic font, error message unexpectedly appeared


    46. Ouija board, an ornate affair with the letters of the alphabet in Gothic script


    47. the Psychic Fayre at the local church hall, a Gothic building originally built as a school


    48. huge, Gothic style cathedral loomed over them


    49. Thanks to all those Gothic and Romance writers—and their jillions of female readers—being ignored has been deserved, I’m afraid


    50. Anna, Daniel, Billy, and Samuel walked into the department store while the customers stared at the gothic foursome curiously








































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    Synonyms for "gothic"

    gothic gothic architecture black letter mediaeval medieval romantic grotesque barbaric rude old antique venerated

    "gothic" definitions

    extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas


    a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries


    a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches


    characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German


    of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths


    of or relating to the Goths


    as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened


    characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque