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Recent Examples of cornice
Why One Designer Loves Cornice Headboards Some designers absolutely love the look of a cornice headboard and the frills that come with it.
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Sarah Lyon,
The Spruce,
11 Apr. 2026
Curtain cornices, lampshades, and headboards Lampshades can be frustrating to clean because the dust rolls up.
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Sunshine Flint,
Architectural Digest,
2 Apr. 2026
The ornate cornice on the top of the building also collapsed.
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Julian Roberts-Grmela,
New York Daily News,
26 Mar. 2026
The finished pizza should have a thin crust with a puffy cornice around the edges, spotted with charring.
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Sean Timberlake,
Sacbee.com,
14 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for cornice
Sarah Lyon,
The Spruce,
11 Apr. 2026
Curtain cornices, lampshades, and headboards Lampshades can be frustrating to clean because the dust rolls up.
—
Sunshine Flint,
Architectural Digest,
2 Apr. 2026
The ornate cornice on the top of the building also collapsed.
—
Julian Roberts-Grmela,
New York Daily News,
26 Mar. 2026
The finished pizza should have a thin crust with a puffy cornice around the edges, spotted with charring.
—
Sean Timberlake,
Sacbee.com,
14 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for cornice
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cornice
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In the Forum’s main lobby, easily overlooked, a 175-foot aluminum frieze by Chicago artist Theaster Gates, using photos of city life from the Johnson Publishing archives.
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The artist Theaster Gates, who has paid tribute to Black life and Black beauty in the center’s Forum building with a frieze of archival images from Ebony and Jet magazines, is also a neighbor to the center with his cultural revitalization projects through the Rebuild Foundation.
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Some of the vast spaces have been given playful new roles: there's a Powder Room of epic proportions; the grand balcony under the entablature is now a huge smoking terrace; and the new bar on the second floor stretches the entire depth of the building.
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There are other stops on the tour: the great room, which also features marble columns and marble entablatures, enhanced by wooden moldings and ceilings.
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Upping the sheen for the trims (skirting boards and window and door architraves) adds a subtle variation and frames the room.
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The researchers also studied a group of architrave blocks, which would have been positioned just above the columns of a building.
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The action required is not cultural goodwill but actual capital, flowing from institutions, from investors, and from women with wealth toward the work of building these tables.
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Downtown Sacramento was awash in Dodger blue as thousands of fans poured into the capital city for a three-game series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the A’s that concludes Wednesday.
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Even now, its fins and pilasters adorn plenty of new construction, and in real-estate-speak, the phrase is code for high class.
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And then this pilaster rising up.
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The only way to preserve our republic is to strengthen the pillars of our present with the mortar of our past.
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These clips, showing first-person views from drones striking military and logistical sites, have become a pillar of Ukraine’s wartime propaganda efforts to illustrate battlefield successes against Russia.
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Zach Wichter is a travel reporter and wrote the Cruising Altitude column for USA TODAY.
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United is a staple of the gossip column and so supporters must take any reporting about transfer targets linked to their club with a pinch of salt.
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Trump gleefully tearing up large chunks of the White House and my hometown, trying to install a solipsistic arch, an exclusive golf course, a gargantuan ballroom and a garden of heroes — all to his Versailles-on-acid specifications.
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The platform shoes add extra height, while providing extra cushioning for arch-support and shock absorption.
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“Cornice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cornice. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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