Vaulted

"Vaulted" in a Sentence (10 examples)

Tom vaulted over the wall.

Then fury spurred their courage, and behold, / As ravening wolves, when darkness hides the day, / Stung with mad fire of famine uncontrolled, / Prowl from their dens, and leave the whelps to stay, / With jaws athirst and gaping for the prey. / So to sure death, amid the darkness there, / Where swords, and spears, and foemen bar the way, / Into the centre of the town we fare. / Night with her shadowy cone broods o'er the vaulted air.

With the police in foot pursuit, Tom ran through the decrepit fence and vaulted over a small car.

In memory of his Naiad, he had previously ornamented the fountain in which she appeared to reside, and secured its waters from profanation or pollution by the small vaulted building of which the fragments still remained scattered around it.

This cathedral has a vaulted ceiling.

Tom vaulted over the wall like it was nothing.

Putting his athletic skills to the test, Tom pole vaulted his way into the open second-story window.

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas is another famous building by Louis Kahn. Some say it is his best. Kahn built this museum in the early nineteen seventies. This large museum has long rooms with curved or vaulted ceilings. Inside, all of the walls can be moved to best fit the art collection. Kahn was able to make the concrete material of the building look both solid and airy. He used sunlight and bodies of water to create a truly special building.

The thief vaulted over the counter to reach the cash register.

It was a large vaulted apartment, and had been once a chapel: but it was now half library, half laboratory.

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