FACADE in a Sentence
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23 example sentences for FACADE, such as:
1. In the evening the facade is floodlit.
2. She managed to maintain a facade of bravery.
3. She managed to maintain a facade of indifference.
4. The facade of Corinthe, half demolished, was hideous.
5. Behind that amiable facade, he's a deeply unpleasant man.
2. She managed to maintain a facade of bravery.
3. She managed to maintain a facade of indifference.
4. The facade of Corinthe, half demolished, was hideous.
5. Behind that amiable facade, he's a deeply unpleasant man.
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Meanings and Examples of FACADE
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facade
n. front of building; superficial or false appearance
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1 A severe facade rose above this door; a wall, perpendicular to the facade, almost touched the door, and flanked it with an abrupt right angle.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES
2 And then, the moon fell full upon that facade, and the man who was watching at the corner of the street would have seen Jean Valjean in the act of climbing.
3 The top alone of the Corinthe facade suffered; the window on the first floor, and the attic window in the roof, riddled with buck-shot and biscaiens, were slowly losing their shape.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE
4 A house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
5 The facade of Corinthe, half demolished, was hideous.
6 She looked across at the flat-house with its marble porch and pseudo-Georgian facade.
7 His facade is a complete architectural meal; if he had omitted a style his friends might have thought the money had given out.
8 They were just beneath the wide white facade, with its rich restraint of line, which suggested the clever corseting of a redundant figure.
9 As they walked through Lafayette Square, looking past the Jackson statue at the lovely tranquil facade of the White House, he sighed, "I wish I'd had a shot at places like this."
10 We passed a barrier of dark trees, and then the facade of Fifty-ninth Street, a block of delicate pale light, beamed down into the park.
11 He stopped and looked round at the facade of the long, low old brown house.
12 The homestead consisted of a threshing floor, outhouses, stables, a bathhouse, a lodge, and a large brick house with semicircular facade still in course of construction.
13 The large building of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had a wing on the Rue Petit-Picpus, turned two facades, at right angles, towards this garden.
14 These interior facades were even more tragic than the exterior.
15 One of those facades cast its shadow on the other, which fell over the garden like an immense black pall.
Example Sentence:
1 Behind that amiable facade, he's a deeply unpleasant man.
2 In the evening the facade is floodlit.
3 She managed to maintain a facade of bravery.
4 She managed to maintain a facade of indifference.
5 I believe the Religious Right's thin facade is being revealed.
6 With its elegant, arcing facades and neatly manicured private garden, Egerton Crescent is rich in the hallmarks of affluence and exclusivity you'd expect from Britain's priciest street.