pagoda

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Recent Examples of pagoda Today’s photo, with its olive green watercolour hues, intensifies the deeply vibrant purple flowers bursting open on this gorgeous pagoda shaped tower. New York Times Games, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024 The pagoda is built of plywood veneer and wood poles, finished with a clear coat of varnish. R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024 More traditional Chinese food is served at the Sea Palace, a floating three-story pagoda near Centraal Station. Jaymi McCann, theweek, 9 Dec. 2024 The pagoda is filled with precious statues, including a wooden Shakyamuni Buddha covered with gold paint. Catherine Garcia, theweek, 11 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for pagoda
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pagoda
Noun
  • Videos posted on The Irrawaddy online news site showed several mosques toppling.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Tensions also grew between Iraq's Sunni institutions over conflicting announcements, with dozens of Iraqis performing Eid prayers on Sunday, outside mosques and without clergy, according to media reports.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • To the east of the temple, archaeologists found some ruins likely used as administrative buildings.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2025
  • If your forehead is wider, celebrity makeup artist Chelsea Roach suggests the sides of the temples, right above the bottom of the cheekbone, and underneath the jaw.
    Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The housing proposals were drawn up by People Acting for Community Together, or PACT, a nonprofit interfaith group made up of some 40 churches, synagogues and mosques in Miami-Dade that advocates for solutions to some of the county’s most pressing social issues.
    Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Also known as the Great Synagogue and said to be the largest in Europe, the building has room for some 3,000 worshippers and contains a number of unusual features, including a massive pipe organ that is technically located outside the synagogue walls.
    Evan Rail, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Last Thursday, parts of the shrine started to go back to Canada following a repatriation ceremony in New York.
    Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The city is also often visited for its temples, shrines, palaces and other historical structures.
    Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 25 Mar. 2025

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“Pagoda.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pagoda. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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