How to Use rose window in a Sentence

rose window

noun
  • The fate of some paintings inside the structure and its three famous rose windows is still unknown.
    Steff Yotka, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2019
  • Only the three rose windows retain much of their original glazing.
    National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2019
  • Muslims pray here, too, toward Mecca, which is a place in the world somewhere in the direction of the rose window.
    Anna Deforest, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
  • The church had a pair of magnificent rose windows — one facing south and another in a chapel that faces west and sparkles on an early summer evening.
    Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 29 June 2018
  • There were countless selfies with the cathedral’s twin towers and rose windows as the try-to-beat-this Instagram backdrop.
    Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 16 Apr. 2019
  • The rose window of the Otranto Cathedral is an iconic landmark in Salento.
    Felicity Carter, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • Commercial buildings with wood roofs will experience severe damage, metal buildings may collapse and high-rise windows will nearly all be blown out.
    Abigail Abrams, Time, 19 Sep. 2017
  • What electrifies this solemn space is the modern rose window, illuminated by the East sun and installed in 2010.
    Liz Robbins, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Its rose windows glow like gems in the darkness, akin to the effect at the cathedral’s Gothic contemporary, Notre-Dame de Paris.
    Benjamin Ramm, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Over the next five years restoration will extend to the three great rose windows of the west, north, and south façades, the flying buttresses of the nave, the west façade towers, and the windows of the nave tribune as well as the choir chapels.
    Michael T. Davis, The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2026
  • Details – rose windows, gargoyles, flying buttresses – came gradually.
    Mike Hughes, Cincinnati.com, 26 Apr. 2020
  • Upon arrival, visitors can take a stroll through the city center and marvel at the splendid Cathedral of Santarém before heading to the Church of Grace, a small house of worship adorned with an intricate rose window carved from a single stone.
    Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • Yves Gallet, an art historian at Bordeaux Montaigne University, oversees a group that aims to study stones that are still in place, such as the encasements that cradle the four-story-diameter rose windows.
    Christa Lesté-Lasserre, Science | AAAS, 12 Mar. 2020

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