How to use nave in a sentence

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• The cook-house was like a cathedral's nave, aisles being divided off by the pipes of stoves.1930, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades, Grosset & Dunlap, page 308. From the entry coke breeze
• In the middle of the nave was erected a magnificent jube, where the throne of Charles X. was placed.2009, Arthur Leon Imbert De Saint-Amand, The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X, page 66. From the entry jube
• One does not nave to have the income of a Nero Wolfe to play with orchids at home.1969, Garden Journal, volumes 19-21, New York Botanical Garden, page 40. From the entry Nero Wolfe
• The nave and central tower, more flamboyant in design, were finished early in the sixteenth century after the original plan.1913, “Abbey of Saint-Ouen”, in Catholic Encyclopedia. From the entry flamboyant
• These make no rustle save Some pine-cone dropt, or murmur that condemns Murmur; bedumb'd with moss that giant nave.1901, Herbert Trench, Deirdre wed and other poems - Page 39. From the entry bedumb
• Only substantial campaigns (new aisles, naves, towers (indicated by crosses), etc.) are shown; lesser works such as porches, refenestrations, etc. have not been included.1989, Richard Morris, Churches in the Landscape, London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, →ISBN, page 402. From the entry refenestration
• Only the nave survives but it is not difficult to imagine the apse at the east end, and the small porticuses to the north and south.2018, Frances Marrow, Anno Domini: The Story of Christianity in the British Isles, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leics: Matador, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry porticus
• Here I was, embosomed in the very nave, the very omphalos of furtive femininity—a prize patron of the women's restaurant, a member, privy to its innermost secrets.2014, T.C. Boyle, The Collected Stories Of T.Coraghessan Boyle. From the entry omphalos
• In some instances the inside door to the nave from a porch entrance would be overlooked by a similar structure to a bretache, known as an assommoir.2004, Peter Harrison, Castles of God: Fortified Religious Buildings of the World, Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 107. From the entry bretache
• St Michael's Church, which dates from the 14th century, is known as the 'Barn of Kent' because of its 36 ft wide roof-span over an aisleless nave.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 359, about Smarden. From the entry aisleless
• It remains therefore to speculate on the form of the church: whether we located north and south aisles beyond the nave or whether these are porticuses is not clear.1980, Papers of the British School at Rome, R. Clay and Sons, page 110. From the entry porticus
• Facing the raised sanctuary over the vast crypt they also often erected at the west end of the nave a towerlike structure with vaulted stories, that we call the "westwork."1987, Malcolm Quantrill, The Environmental Memory: Man and Architecture in the Landscape of Ideas, page 134. From the entry westwork

Meaning of nave

1. noun The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.
2. noun The ground-level middle cavity of a barn.
3. noun A hub of a wheel.

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How do you use nave in a sentence?

Nave is used as a noun. For example: “The hubs remain the ’naves’ in the link structure but are the sources of material.”

What is a short sentence with nave?

“The hubs remain the ’naves’ in the link structure but are the sources of material.”

What does nave mean?

Nave means the middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.