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How to use lintels in a sentence

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Architectural embellishments, such as sills and lintels, however, were carved from sandstone.
Opposite the kitchen is a server, created from several long building lintels, supported by two brick waist-high walls.
Sills and lintels of windows and doors, and capitals and bases of columns, were carved from local stone.
Once home to the laird's livestock, the vault now houses a laundry room, albeit one with flagstone floors and low stone lintels.
The larger stones observed at the site are used as lintels over doorways or windows.
Stone arches can safely, economically and aesthetically replace concrete lintels.
The handsome edifice has such Federal style adornments as stone lintels over the windows and a cornice with mutules and cable molding.
The snow-covered window frames and door lintels added a fairyland flavour to the solemn church.
It bears all the hallmarks of a Post-Modernist interpretation of a historical facade, with architraves and lintels in cast aluminium.
Arches hide studded oak doors, twisted iron grilles, smooth door lintels with faint carvings of faces, tools, dates.
There was no roof, while anything of value inside had long gone, from the original floor slabs and fireplaces to the lintels and stair treads.
This year the stone work lintels, sills and other features were restored and the general area around the church cleaned up.
In October 1903, after the lintels, tympana, and doors were in place, Mrs. Vanderbilt wrote Stanford White.
Mammoth tree trunks stretch across ceilings above hand-carved lintels, mortised into place in elaborate structures.
Ferns sprout from mossy lintels and trees reach for the sky from small, now-roofless rooms which were the living quarters of slaves.
In the circuit of the wall are 100 gates, all of brass with brazen lintels.
Each of them is made of beautifully laid rough solid buff Cambridge-like brick with very precise precast concrete lintels and strings.
Precast concrete, reinforced masonry, and steel angles are commonly used as lintels.
A mosaic of paving stones, red flagstones, cobblestones, and sandstone lintels salvaged from a demolished school form the paving and low walls.
The brickwork was being pointed up and painters were carefully applying fresh coats of white paint to doors and lintels.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The lintels of the doors are almost invariably formed of the wood of the Central American sapota tree.
It is remarkable that the lintels of the doorways are of wood, known as sapote wood.
Babies with lintels, grains of corn or shoe-buttons up their noses, purple in the face and waiting for the doctor or the embalmer.
Serpents and dragons 82 entwine on the lintels, and emblematize the Church's power to overcome.
Beautifully tooled, light stone lintels with fine-scale radial scorings greatly enhance the beauty of the fenestration.
Now in the Yucatec ruins the cornices and lintels of the doorways, of zapot wood, were exposed to the open air.
He noticed, at the lintels of the door, some rabbits' tails and zebras' manes, suspended as talismans.
It may even be used to lift beams, lintels and spandrels, making it an all around ground-breaking product, in addition to being extremely practical for its users.
He agreed that we knew something in that way, but inquired how I should have gone to work in getting up the imposts on the lintels of even the little palace at Carnac.
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