Facade

//fəˈsɑːd//

"Facade" in a Sentence (15 examples)

The facade of the building was completely renovated. I didn't recognize it when I drove by.

They will have placed the billboard on that building's facade before July ends.

They live in a white house with a brick facade on the left at the end of the street.

The magician's use of smoke and mirrors was an elaborate facade.

Sami projected a tough facade.

Do you see the six windows on the facade?

Tom builds a facade to hide his feelings from others.

His friendship was only a facade.

Jim appears puritanical, but it's all a facade.

This house has got a new facade.

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In Egypt the façades of their rock-cut tombs were[…]ornamented so simply and unobtrusively as rather to belie than to announce their internal magnificence.

Like so many of the finest churches, [the cathedral of Siena] was furnished with a plain substantial front wall, intended to serve as the backing and support of an ornamental façade.

The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth ;[…]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”

Eight or so gunmen stood shoulder to shoulder in the gray-white trail before the barn, firing into the saloon's burning, bullet-pocked facade.

Facades are widely used for tasks like simplifying complex APIs.

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