How to Use apse in a Sentence

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• Just east of the church apse, the archaeologists found the dome of a large tomb.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2021
• It is posed in glorious isolation, back to the viewer, in a stone apse.
  — Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 10 May 2018
• The cross-shaped interior, with the altar at the apse, is an homage to light and nature.
  — ABC News, 10 June 2026
• As the shoreline has since receded, the full footprint of the basilica — its apse and dozens of graves — now sits on dry land.
  — Ruth Sherlock, NPR, 28 Nov. 2025
• At the east end of the wide nave, once covered by two domes, is the large apse, with three rectangular niches under semi-domes.
  — Jim Berkeley, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
• Don’t miss the apse’s vault, where Christ, flanked by four angels, sits on the Earth as four rivers of paradise flow beneath his feet.
  — Prathap Nair, National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2019
• But today, only Maria Miranda wasps inhabit the crumbling apse of her church.
  — Catherine Fairweather, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2024
• An interior that looks like a forest The cross-shaped interior, with the altar at the apse, is an homage to light and nature.
  — Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
• One bulging wall, poking out into a courtyard like a chapel’s apse, is actually a conversation nook for resident artists.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Sep. 2021
• As in a Gothic cathedral, the living room acts as a kind of apse from which the chapels of the dining room, entertainment room, and kitchen all radiate.
  — Charles Curkin, ELLE Decor, 20 Nov. 2019
• As Hurriyet reports, Polat and his team uncovered the apse near the station’s waiting platforms.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2021
• The apse was transported, stone by stone, to the Cloisters in the late 1940s as a long-term loan from the Spanish government.
  — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• Visitors enter through a narrow passage into a spare, traditional looking chapel whose apse wall is pockmarked with charcoal pieces framing a wooden cross.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 25 May 2018
• An ambulatory — aisles for walking typically placed around the apse — was added to the building, bringing its total length to about 180 feet.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
• The site is equal parts art installation and scientific feat, consisting of an empty white space that fills with rainbows each day as the sun shines through 12 large prisms in the building's apses.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 21 Jan. 2026
• The Gozzoli frescoes, which occupy a high octagonal apse in San Francesco, had the same warmth and intimacy of the artist’s Magi paintings.
  — Peter Terzian, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
• Alessandro Cortini’s horror drones made sense in the apse, especially when heard while seated atop it; almost every inch of Arcosanti was available to explore, including the tops of buildings.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 16 May 2016
• The officials also inaugurated the Mosaic of the Transfiguration situated in the eastern apse of the monastery’s great basilica.
  — Samy Magdy, The Seattle Times, 16 Dec. 2017
• Located near Bath Abbey, the two semi-circular stone structures appear to have once been part of an Anglo-Saxon apse—the end of a church that often contains the altar—and date to sometime between the eighth and tenth centuries.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
• Behind the apse, in the monsignor’s private apartments, Dom Pérignon 2006 was poured for the ladies in glittering gowns and men in floaty silk caftans and shiny Alta Sartoria suits adorned with diamond brooches.
  — Alexandra Marshall, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017
• The fresco of Christ the Redeemer in Glory with the Heavenly Host by Niccolo Circignani Il Pomarancio (1588) in main apse of church Basilica di Santi Giovanni e Paolo.
  — Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025