Edifice

The new edifice of the theatre looks very splendid.

This edifice is a mosque.

Thousands of laborers and craftsmen toiled for 22 years to craft the stunning white marble edifice.

He could see the castle, perched on a height, from a distance: it was a hybrid edifice, a mixture of the Renascence and Louis Philippe styles, but it bore a stately air, nevertheless, with its four turrets and its ivy-mantled draw-bridge.

Marriage is an edifice that has to be rebuilt every day.

Everyone can work within their means to bring the Kabyle language to the firmament it deserves. Even if our writings lack rigor, every stone we add to this edifice will be a plus for those who will come to make it even greater. This is why we perpetuate our modest contribution while remaining deaf to the denigration of those who have nothing else to do.

The real difficulty was moral, not intellectual. Was the whole edifice of Ptolemy to be destroyed?

With a great thump on the table, Poirot demolished his carefully built up edifice.