Ziggurats Definition & Meaning

Examples of ziggurat in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Cream colored, four-story ziggurat shaped buildings at the marina look out at ample sea views and sunsets. — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 29 May 2022 The winding roads around that development — with street names like Serene Way and Jubilant Way — lead to several towering Buddhist shrines, retreat centers and a spiral ziggurat commissioned in the 1970s by the father of Jordan’s Queen Noor. — New York Times, 18 May 2022 The ziggurat tower-city is finished but ominously quiet. — Jenny Uglow, The New York Review of Books, 21 Oct. 2021 Most dramatic was the ziggurat, which is some 85 feet tall and once stood at least twice as high. — Leon Mccarron, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022 The concrete ziggurat at 33rd and Tenth Avenue had the look of a place designed to muffle screams from deep inside. — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 30 Sep. 2021 Weeks or months later, your Todoist app is a teetering ziggurat of tasks, too painful even to behold. — Clive Thompson, Wired, 27 July 2021 But the renovation around 2450 B.C. covered this communal space with earthen terraces, transforming the dome into a six-story ziggurat, or stepped pyramid. — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2021 In the children scaling the ziggurat, indulging concrete’s imaginative possibilities. — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021 See More

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