Get to know Cruciform better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like cruciate or symmetrical.
Cruciform in a sentence
Cruciform meaning
Having the shape of a cross.
Synonyms of Cruciform
Using Cruciform
- The main meaning on this page is: Having the shape of a cross.
- Useful related words include: cruciate, symmetrical, symmetric.
- In the example corpus, cruciform often appears in combinations such as: the cruciform, cruciform sword, sixty-story cruciform.
Context around Cruciform
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 11 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cruciform
- In this selection, "cruciform" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, story, large, commonly, sword, stud and intersecting stand out and add context to how "cruciform" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include of the cruciform sword a and a large cruciform cross shaped. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cruciform" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cruciform
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney has a typical cruciform plan. (10 words)
Edwards buried his head — pierced in one ear by a cruciform stud — under his black tank top. (17 words)
The very last scene showed Beatrice leaving the Order of the Cruciform Sword, but as she exited the church, the sword glowed mysteriously. (23 words)
Piers that occur at the intersection of two large arches, such as those under the crossing of the nave and transept, are commonly cruciform in shape, each arch having its own supporting rectangular pier at right angles to the other. (40 words)
Netflix's provided a description for : "Season 1 follows Ava coming to terms with her new status as a member of the Order of the Cruciform Sword, a group of devout women dedicated to fighting an ancient evil. (38 words)
In it, he proposed to bulldoze most of central Paris north of the Seine and replace it with his sixty-story cruciform towers from the Contemporary City, placed within an orthogonal street grid and park-like green space. (38 words)
Example sentences (12)
Netflix's provided a description for : "Season 1 follows Ava coming to terms with her new status as a member of the Order of the Cruciform Sword, a group of devout women dedicated to fighting an ancient evil.
The very last scene showed Beatrice leaving the Order of the Cruciform Sword, but as she exited the church, the sword glowed mysteriously.
Edwards buried his head — pierced in one ear by a cruciform stud — under his black tank top.
As a result of this act, the traditional texture of the city was replaced with cruciform intersecting streets creating large roundabouts, located on the major public spaces such as the bazaar.
In it, he proposed to bulldoze most of central Paris north of the Seine and replace it with his sixty-story cruciform towers from the Contemporary City, placed within an orthogonal street grid and park-like green space.
Opening from the western side of the cloister, but actually standing in the outer court, is the refectory (G), a large cruciform (cross shaped) building, about convert square, decorated within with frescoes of saints.
Piers that occur at the intersection of two large arches, such as those under the crossing of the nave and transept, are commonly cruciform in shape, each arch having its own supporting rectangular pier at right angles to the other.
St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney has a typical cruciform plan.
The AIM-54 Phoenix, developed for the F-111B fleet air defense fighter, had an airframe with four cruciform fins that was a scaled-up version of the AIM-47.
The centerpiece of this plan was the group of sixty-story cruciform skyscrapers, steel-framed office buildings encased in huge curtain walls of glass.
The letter Tau ( ) was associated with the stauros or crux, while the notion of "cruciform" shapes, i.e. intersecting lines, were associated with the letter Chi ( ).
They flee, however, when the catacombs are set aflame by the Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword, a secret society that protects the Grail from evildoers.
Common combinations with cruciform
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the cruciform 4×
- cruciform sword 3×
- sixty-story cruciform 2×