How to Use edifice in a Sentence

edifice

noun

• Four years later, a site for such an edifice has yet to be publicly named.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Apr. 2022
• Over the last three years, the edifice of that old order has begun to crack.
  — Michael Woldemariam, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2019
• Her ghost touches him at every step of the way up to the top of the vast edifice.
  — David Zane Mairowitz, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2025
• Our work behind the scenes keeps the whole edifice from crumbling—at least for now.
  — Pablo Strauss, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
• Coach's wooden edifice might not be the easiest place to find on our steak trail.
  — Jared Boyd, AL.com, 23 June 2017
• An onyx edifice might not relate to other houses on the block.
  — Yelena Moroz Alpert, WSJ, 10 June 2021
• All playing out against the backdrop of some of the most stately edifices.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 8 Sep. 2023
• Now the edifice was collapsed, and there was a smoking hill of rubble where the kitchen had been.
  — James Verini, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2022
• The tonal flavor is softer, but the bright smiles of the concierge reflect the white edifice.
  — Michael Alpiner, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• The court’s marble edifice has been closed to the public since March.
  — Jess Bravin, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2020
• Glass and steel edifices sprang up in cities around the country, and brought with them the heyday of downtowns.
  — Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 10 June 2026
• Genetics is the foundation for a grand edifice which aims to paint the tree of life.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2013
• The building jutted like a giant cruise ship above their heads, its edifice a patchwork of blue glass.
  — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• This was a good man, a brave one who proved himself solid when major edifices of the world were melting away.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2018
• There’s little danger, in other words, that the whole edifice of math could come crashing down.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
• Indeed, the Supreme Court has been chipping away at this edifice.
  — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
• The truth risks bringing down the whole edifice, which is why the system writhes to hide who takes decisions large and small.
  — Azadeh Moaveni, Time, 3 Feb. 2026
• Rolls on the bass drum threaten to engulf the entire tottering edifice in a cloud of noise.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2022
• Yet, for all this progress, the cracks in the 401(k) edifice remain glaring.
  — Brian Menickella, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
• The edifice forms a large inner-circle that raises and widens in a succession of rings.
  — J. Weston Phippen, The Atlantic, 3 July 2017
• And could Powers have erected the whole creaky edifice that is this novel in order to air this idea?
  — Gish Jen, The New Republic, 17 Sep. 2021
• Time captive within the grand edifices of the past, parading on the stage of memory.
  — Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
• Jammed against the church’s edifice was a young mother, bare-legged, protecting a rickety stroller, drowned out by the fray.
  — Caroline Aiken Koster, New York Daily News, 28 Mar. 2024
• The five-story edifice would rank among the largest residential buildings in the city.
  — Henry Wiencek july 22, Literary Hub, 22 July 2025
• Makeshift tents fill the crammed courtyard, the solid edifice of the church overlooking the flimsy havens.
  — Cnn’s Abeer Salman and Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2025
• To make way for this striking edifice, however, one of Phoenix’s oldest schools had to be razed.
  — Douglas C. Towne, The Arizona Republic, 19 Aug. 2021
• Certainly, there have been few scenes like it in the 50-year history of the edifice.
  — Tod Leonard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Sep. 2017
• The Owens are trying to create a legacy that will endure as long as the edifice itself.
  — cleveland, 15 Aug. 2022
• The Apollo is one of those edifices that will around not only for the rest of our lives, but the many to come after our lives are over.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
• These are observations that amount to light chipping away at a marble edifice that was built with other things in mind.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2026