Pediment in a sentence

The first leach pad will be constructed for North Hill and Silica Ridge, and the second leach pad will be constructed in year 3 and will receive mineralized material feed from Southeast Pediment and Abel Knoll.

The rectangular building with a big dome on the pediment of the portico and other such smaller domes on other symmetrical wings contrasted the gothic style of its neighbour.

At either end of the building the gable is finished with a triangular pediment originally filled with sculpture.

At either end of the building the pediment rises from the cornice, framed by moulding of similar form.

A tympanum is the decorated surface of a pediment.

Church façades are generally surmounted by a pediment and organised by a system of pilasters, arches and entablatures.

Further alterations were made by Bernini including the façade pediment.

In Cassin's model, the last three articles of the Declaration provide the pediment which binds the structure together.

It is likely that many early houses and temples were constructed with an open porch or "pronaos" above which rose a low pitched gable or pediment.

Most characteristics of the original design are maintained, subtly transformed to give more weight to the central section, where della Porta uses, among other motifs, a low triangular pediment overlaid on a segmental one above the main door.

Raymond Collier, La Haute-Provence monumentale et artistique, p. 212 Its pediment was originally from the old Dominican convent and was identified in 1988.

Sculptures of Poseidon and Athena's horses fell to the ground and smashed as his soldiers tried to detach them from the building's west pediment.

See e.g. citation Sculpture Group from the east pediment The cella of the Parthenon housed the chryselephantine statue of Athena Parthenos sculpted by Phidias and dedicated in 439 or 438 BC.

The clay ornaments were limited to the roof of buildings, decorating the cornice, the corners and surmounting the pediment.

The eastern pediment shows a moment of stillness and "impending drama" before the beginning of a chariot race, the figures of Zeus and the competitors being severe and idealised representations of the human form.

The frieze and remaining figures of the eastern pediment show a profound understanding of the human body, and how it varies depending upon its position and the stresses that action and emotion place upon it.

The pediment over the main entrance is decorated by sculptures by Sir Richard Westmacott depicting The Progress of Civilisation, consisting of fifteen allegorical figures, installed in 1852.

The pediment shows the story of Heracles stealing Apollo's tripod that was strongly associated with his oracular inspiration.

The roofline is also topped by a balustrade and the heavy modillions adorning the pediment give the First Bank an appearance much more like a Roman villa than a Greek temple.

The scene appears to have filled the space with figures carefully arranged to fit the slope and shape available, as with earlier east pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympus.