How to Use onion dome in a Sentence

onion dome

noun

• The local church, with its onion dome, sits next to the school.
  — JerÉ Longman and Matthew Kruchak, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2017
• Two large onion dome cupolas with tall gilt crosses have toppled to the ground.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2023
• On one side of the street, faintly visible through the sooty mist, was the steeple of an Orthodox church, its brass onion dome pierced by shrapnel.
  — James Verini, New York Times, 19 May 2022
• Passengers spilled off the ship to amble the dirt roads and take pictures of the Russian Orthodox church, with its blue and white onion domes.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2016
• The curtain was ornately embroidered with images of bears, onion domes, and noble savages untainted by logic.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• Still, most of the community’s churches, topped with golden onion domes and rising among fields or nestled between homes, have largely or entirely closed down.
  — oregonlive, 11 May 2020
• One of my favorite things to do is go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture.
  — Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
• Its major cultural landmark is a Russian Orthodox church dating to 1907 and topped with a yellow onion dome.
  — Jessica Marshall, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2013
• One of the distinguishing features of the Hobbs Building was its iconic onion dome that had become a recognizable part of Aurora’s skyline.
  — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 10 Feb. 2022
• The Moorish Revival structure, known for its distinctive onion domes, attracted interest from a range of retailers and real estate investors.
  — Ryan Ori, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2019
• On the second floor of the Potrero Hill brewery, built as a coffee roastery in the 1930s, workers still hand-crank the valve on the copper mash cooker, half a century old and shaped like an onion dome.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Jan. 2015
• The palace is a fantasia, with a courtyard that does not lead to any rooms and three towers topped by onion domes—the tallest of which was dedicated to Stockalper’s namesake, Kaspar, of the Three Magi, and adorned by symbols of the sun.
  — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 1 June 2026