How to use cathedral in a sentence

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• If you look to the left, you can note the old cathedral.From the entry note
• We went over the cathedral and then had lunch in the cafe.From the entry over
• The guidebook suggested that we visit the local cathedral, so that's what we did.From the entry suggest
• The architect incorporated a lunule design into the arched windows of the cathedral.From the entry lunule
• The cathedral square was overrun with tourists.From the entry overrun
• Our private tour of the cathedral even allowed us to walk through the apse, which most tours don't.From the entry apse
• The cathedral is part of the Episcopal Church, the American branch of Anglicanism.2019 August 16, Daniel Burke, “How Pete Buttigieg found God”, in CNN, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2021. From the entry forerunner
• This chant was sung in many cathedrals both at First Vespers and at Matins for Christmas Day.2017, Edward H. Roesner, editor, Ars antiqua: Organum, Conductus, Motet, Routledge, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry matins
• The ceremony took place in a wartime setting with the cathedral stripped of many of its treasures.2012, Dennis A. Castillo, “The Summer of 1942”, in The Santa Marija Convoy: Faith and Endurance in Wartime Malta, 1940–1942, Lanham, Md.…. From the entry karozzin
• Nor would it have been possible to build a great cathedral on the same model.1972, Robert Payne, The World of Art. From the entry Nôtre Dame
• A copy of the Mandilion is preserved in the cathedral of Laon.1967, Titus Burckhardt; Lord Northbourne (Walter Earnest Christopher James), transl., Sacred Art in East and West: Its Principles and…. From the entry mandylion
• The little stone Saint occupied a retired niche in a side aisle of the old cathedral.1910, ‘Saki’, “The Saint and the Goblin”, in Reginald in Russia. From the entry retired
• However, the style of singing originated in Elizabethan cathedral choirs, eventually falling out of favour during the Romantic period.2014 August 8, Rupert Christiansen, “The truth about falsettos [print version: 12 August 2014, p. R8]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review). From the entry countertenor
• The centre of the kremlin usually held the prince's or voivode’s court, the cathedral, and the bishop's court.2012, Konstantin Nossov, Russian Fortresses 1480-1682, page 45. From the entry kremlin
• Mavis Longbottom is there, together with Angel Robinson in her flounciest printed cotton, but not inside the cathedral.2006, [Derek] James Hawkins, chapter 12, in Barry Jowett, editor, Deadly Sin: A Chief Inspector Bliss Mystery, Toronto, Ont.: Dundurn…. From the entry flouncy
• The problem is that the Turin Shroud is kept well and truly shrouded in the Duomo, the rather subdued Renaissance cathedral.2003, William Black, Al Dente: The Adventures of a Gastronome in Italy, Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry Hogwartian
• Every monastery and cathedral had a chapter house.1999 February 3, “Notes & Queries”, in The Guardian, London, page 17, column 3. From the entry duodecagonal
• The founders did more than "make bricks without straw; they dreamed of a great cathedral and laid the foundations for it.1938, Jonas A. Jonasson, Bricks without straw: the story of Linfield College, page 168. From the entry make bricks without straw
• After crossing the flatlands Lincoln, with its magnificent hilltop cathedral, comes into view before we pull into the station, with its lovely Tudor revival-style buildings.2024 October 30, Paul Bigland, “The heat is on... and will the railway fray?”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 48. From the entry revival
• For example, Inter ultras displayed an impressive choreography of the Madonnina, the statue of the Madonna that sits atop Milan's cathedral, bedecked in Inter colours.2024 June 18, Przemysław Nosal, Radosław Kossakowski, Wojciech Woźniak, Football, Fandom and Collective Memory: Global Perspectives…. From the entry choreography
• Miraculously moist, the chrism was kept in an ampulla in Reims cathedral where the coronations of the kings of France were held.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 8. From the entry chrism
• During the summer, light cotton pants are the most appropriate travelwear and are a good option for getting by cathedral dress codes.1998, Hsiao-Yun Chu, Ian Z. Pervil, editors, Let’s Go: Rome (Let’s Go Publications), Macmillan, →ISBN, page 54. From the entry travelwear
• Big deck, high open-beam cathedral ceiling.1993 Feb. 12, "Real Estate: Twain Harte Chalet $129,500, Union Democrat (USA), p. 1C (retrieved 27 Oct 2011). From the entry cathedral ceiling
• Through forest aisles while the wind chanteth low-- In God's cathedral where the great trees grow, Now all day long he paceth to and fro.1913, Virna Sheard, The Miracle and Other Poems. From the entry paceth
• For a few moments to think of the country as the place of sacred ointments and special spoons, grand cathedrals and epically wealthy, exquisitely dressed people.2023 May 8, Nesrine Malik, “The coronation pulled a screen across a desperate, failing nation – just as intended”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry loaded
• Our arrival at Worcester is heralded by the appearance of the city's cathedral tower, a solid square structure that's dominated the skyline since the 12th century.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67. From the entry herald
• The tapestry by Graham Sutherland that occupies the whole wall of the liturgical east and geographic north of the cathedral is recognisable to the point of visual exhaustion.2019, Sarah Hosking, "Coventry Cathedral", in Prickett Stephen Prickett, Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts, Edinburgh…. From the entry east
• With their uncorked engine exhaust snarling, the B-25s zoomed over the twin spires of the impressive white cathedral and strafed several supply dumps alongside the waterfront.2013, Bruce Gamble, Target: Rabaul, →ISBN, page 155. From the entry uncorked
• A Miaphysite Catholicate continued in very difficult circumstances to sustain the independent life of the Church from the cathedral in the former Armenian capital city of Ējmiacin or Valaršapat.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 276. From the entry catholicate
• The morning we stood on Monte de Gozo,and saw the cathedral spires as though floating in the distance, the sun was already making its ascent into the pale sky.2008, Cecilia Samartin, Tarnished Beauty: A Novel, Atria Books, →ISBN, page 301. From the entry wisp
• The wind blew so hard during the service itself that it seemed as though the whole of Oban bay was trying to get into the cathedral.2004 May 28, Kelvin Holdsworth, “The Rt Rev Kevin Pearson”, in Thurible.net. From the entry hooley
• Among the everyday activities recorded in the stained glass of cathedrals, one window at Gloucester Cathedral preserves the image of a cambuca player about to strike his ball.2001, Paul B. Newman, Daily life in the Middle Ages, page 162. From the entry cambuca
• Although easily overlooked, these panels belonged to what was perhaps the single most important piece of ecclesiastical furniture in the Romanesque cathedral of Durham: the rood screen.1994, Thomas E. Russo, “The Romanesque Rood Screen of Durham Cathedral: Context and Form”, in David Rollason, Margaret Harvey, Michael…. From the entry rood screen
• The house itself, which was built before the arrival of the von Ernsts, looked, in an uncertain nightmarey way, like the blurred skyline of a cathedral town.1917, Grace Hodgson Flandrau, Cousin Julia, D. Appleton and Company, published 1917, page 70. From the entry nightmarey
• At Mainz we discovered a café close to the theatre, and sipped coffee and ate Streuselkuchen out of doors in the shadow of the cathedral and Gutenberg's statue.1915, Harriet Julia Campbell Jephson, German Travel Notes. From the entry Streuselkuchen
• Meanwhile Thlunrana, that secret lamaserai, that chief cathedral of wizardry, was the terror of the valley in which it stood and of all lands round about it.1915 April, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], “How the Enemy Came to Thlunrana”, in Fifty-one Tales, London…. From the entry lamaserai
• The streets of Guadix are narrow and mispaved and steep, but in the midst of them is the cathedral, solid and ungraceful structure of the eighteenth century.1906, Leonard Williams, Granada: Memories, Adventures, Studies and Impressions, page 179. From the entry mispaved
• Thousands gathered at São Paulo’s main cathedral and made their way to the mayor’s office, where a small group smashed windows and tried to break in, forcing guards to withdraw.2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Jun 2013. From the entry break in

Meaning of cathedral

1. adjective Relating to the office of a bishop or an archbishop.
2. noun The principal church serving as the office (and some as place of residence) of an archdiocese's/a diocese's archbishop/bishop which is symbolized by an episcopal throne known as the cathedra.
3. noun A large or important church building.

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How do you use cathedral in a sentence?

Cathedral is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The bishop presided over the ceremony from his seat in the cathedral.”

What is a short sentence with cathedral?

“a cathedral of commerce”

What does cathedral mean?

Cathedral means relating to the office of a bishop or an archbishop.