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• The facade of the building was ornamented with obtrusive sculpted designs.From the entry obtrusive
• A facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.From the entry return
• The cornerstone on the Flatiron Building is set on the Fifth Avenue facade.From the entry cornerstone
• This facade has eight south-facing lights.From the entry light
• Appearing to flutter across the facade is a run of aluminum fins powder-coated a pearly white.2023 February 6, Wilson Barlow, “A Bedding Manufacturer’s Office Nods to Down Feathers”, in Interior Design. From the entry laboratorylike
• Officially dubbed as “Atomic Tangerine” the home’s distinctive facade is one part quirky to nine parts endearing.2019 July 10, Miriam Schwartz, “Cambridge home a tangerine dream”, in The Boston Herald. From the entry atomic tangerine
• This isn’t about plastic surgery, image management, or makeupping the facade.2014, Michael Yankoski, “Appendix B: Almost Answered: A Q&A with the Author”, in The Sacred Year: Mapping the Soulscape of Spiritual…. From the entry makeup
• The building is overwhelming: its facade is nearly a third of a mile long.2007 March 23, Fred A. Bernstein, “A Road Trip Back to the Future”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11…. From the entry Beacon Hill
• They were cavernous and brightly lit and the facades lining them were pompous and hueful.2004, Sphyrex of Shobol, Vagabond: Psalms of the Dreamers: Abridged(earth Edition) - Page 4. From the entry hueful
• In some cases, an oversized Palladian filled an entire facade of a house.2001, Alastair Gordon, “Epilogue: Past Perfect”, in Weekend Utopia: Modern Living in the Hamptons, New York, N.Y.: Princeton Architectural…. From the entry palladian
• His mindframe reflects a half finished puzzle but his external facade exudes excitement and jubilation.1996 March 1, The Australian Jewish News, Melbourne, page 33, column 1. From the entry mindframe
• Arc lights slashed the cool air along the neon facades of bars and after-hours clubs.1995, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert E. Weinberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories (page 147). From the entry nightcrawler
• The milkjugs tumbled out, set after set, sailing in graceful arcs toward the dam’s facade.1989, Edward Abbey, Hayduke Lives!, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company, published 1990, →ISBN, page…. From the entry milkjug
• The cracks the Tetrarchy induced in the facade of the stauker cabal are now widening into vast chasms.2013 April 1, kensi, “Re: The 2,000,000 line Murphy FAQ”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet), archived from the original on 22 Aug 2025. From the entry pwnz0r
• She likes Doug Wright, believes behind the hard facade lives a warm, boofy bloke not unlike her Dave.2011, John Sullivan, Firebug, page 72. From the entry boofy
• Some have small oriel windows in oval shapes resting on corbeled brickwork, laid in rows that gradually project from the facade.2008 February 24, Christopher Gray, “Once Exclusive Enclaves, Subject to Change”, in New York Times. From the entry corbeled
• The facade was finished in polished marble and bronze set into limestone, completely plain except for softly, almost invisibly, deckled keystones.2008 February 10, Christopher Gray, “A Little Jewel Box of a Shoe Store”, in New York Times. From the entry deckled
• He rebuilt the rotted front porch, restoring some of the Victorian filigree in the process, and reshingled the front facade.2007 May 13, Stephen P. Williams, “A Wished-For House With a Hideaway Nook”, in New York Times. From the entry reshingle
• They sensed that beneath her lighthearted facade was a strong-willed, self-confident initiate who could not be fooled or intimidated.2004, Page Bryant, “A Time for Amulet Making”, in The Second Coming of the Star Gods: A Visionary Novel, Charlottesville, Va.: Hampton…. From the entry risqué
• Pakistan looks like experimenting with a partyful democracy at one time and with a partyless 'facade democracy' at another.1991, J. C. Johari, Governments and politics of South Asia, page 316. From the entry partyful
• And this year, some of the granite facades have a new addition - the blue and yellow of the flag of Ukraine.2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75. From the entry solidarity
• Grouchy and wary and tender, he’s a sozzled hedonist seemingly out for himself—though his party-animal facade is just a mask for his bottomless generosity.2021 October 26, Stephanie Zacharek, “The 19 Most Underrated Movies on Netflix”, in Time, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2022. From the entry mask
• The team’s wealth, the team’s hubris, the team’s blustery ownership, the team’s corporate facade — these are all resentable qualities; I get it.2009 August 2, Bruce Weber, “Reflections of a Yankee Fan”, in New York Times. From the entry resentable
• The two forms are joined by the imposing public lobby, its glass facade slanting back dramatically from the street to evoke a glistening mountainscape.2007 July 14, Nicolai Ouroussoff, “A Fine View, on the Outside at Least”, in New York Times. From the entry mountainscape
• The closest figure to the central part of facade is the bearded ktitor of the church holding its model in his right hand.2004, Leri Tavadze, “Social Composition of Feudal Georgia According to Korogho Reliefs”, in Proceedings. Institute of Georgian History.…. From the entry ktetor
• The Construction of new buildings behind historic facades, better know as facade retention or ‘facadism’, is a unique phase in the history of architecture.1991, David Highfield, “Preface”, in The Construction of New Buildings Behind Historic Facades, →ISBN, page ix. From the entry facadism
• Behind the serene facade of the White House, President Welby was reportedly resting, still trying to decide who should become his new Vice President.1977, David [McCord] Lippincott, “Prologue”, in The Blood of October, London: W. H. Allen, published 1978, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry uncertainest
• Instead of shutting up shop, Ghouneim relocated to humdrum Wittenau, a suburb of Berlin, and got some tape artists to decorate the facade of the new building.2019 April 29, Philip Oltermann, “Are the hyper-specialist shops of Berlin the future of retail?”, in The Guardian, retrieved 26 Jul 2021. From the entry shut up shop
• Because unusual facades catch the public’s eye and generate much of the popular interest in contemporary architecture, clients often urge an architect to build something that looks unbuildable.2008 June 8, Arthur Lubow, “Face Value”, in New York Times. From the entry unbuildable
• The design, by Lab Architecture Studio and Bates Smart, has shardlike clusters of buildings with fractal triangular designs on the facade in glass, zinc and sandstone.2007 September 23, Carrie Hutchinson, “Design Within Reach”, in New York Times. From the entry shardlike
• A little later the focus shifted to Valladolid and became increasingly florid—the Isabelline style—reaching its most extreme in the facades of San Pablo and the Colegio San Gregorio.2004, Simon Baskett, The Rough Guide to Spain, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 1051. From the entry isabelline
• Landlords who were once content to lease rooftops or facades to sign companies now demand a piece of the action, in a joint venture or a limited partnership.1997 June 29, David W. Dunlap, “The Sign Makers Turn Up the Wattage”, in New York Times, retrieved 09 Dec 2012. From the entry piece of the action
• The east side facade is of rubble, studded with small windows and mannered details, while the harled rear (south) wall forms, as completed, a towering, roughly symmetrical grouping.1996, Miles Glendinning, Ranald MacInnes, Aonghus MacKechnie, A History of Scottish Architecture, →ISBN, page 361. From the entry harl
• Behind the neo-Renaissance facades were high-rental apartments, and behind these, filling up the deeply cut speculative properties, were labyrinths of dark courts and backwings, one behind the other.1989, Richard Joseph Neutra, William Marlin, Nature Near: The Late Essays of Richard Neutra, page 184. From the entry backwing
• Now the grime-filmed upper-level windows of their facades peered sadly across at each other over gape-mouthed loading bay entrances whose shutters were all jammed somewhere uncommitted between open and closed.2008, Richard Morgan, Woken Furies, →ISBN. From the entry gape-mouthed

Meaning of facade

1. noun The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.
2. noun The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as the prospect of an organ.
3. noun A deceptive or insincere outward appearance.

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How do you use facade in a sentence?

Facade is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The facade of the building was ornamented with obtrusive sculpted designs.”

What is a short sentence with facade?

“This facade has eight south-facing lights.”

What does facade mean?

Facade means the face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.