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How to use ziggurat in a sentence

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He guided Tennyson and Clara to a stepped display that looked rather like Tennysons' model of a ziggurat from History class.
This piece evokes ancient architecture, in particular the ziggurat of the Assyrians.
Just beyond the bridge is a little park, too rocky to develop, that rises in the middle to a rounded granite ziggurat.
The Tower of Babel, the great ziggurat beside Babylon's temple of Marduk, dates to this era.
Opposite the ziggurat of technology was a single unmade cot.
The ziggurat was always built with a core of mud brick and an exterior covered with baked brick.
A ziggurat, apparently of great antiquity, is located at Tepe Sialk in modern Kāshān, Iran.
In the mid-1990s, it was noted that the brick walls of the ziggurat had shifted slightly, raising concerns about future structural damage.
Of them, the impressive ziggurat of the god Ashur is still standing today and is a visible landmark.
On the north-western side of the ziggurat a group of temples were dedicated to the minor divinities, Ishnikarab and Kiririsha.
It would logically be the ziggurat at Sippar, the artificial mountain where Enmeduranna was priest-king.
The ziggurat occupies the center, surrounded by a city wall.
In The Flutist, an Orphic piper with a mother-of-pearl face charms fossilized rocks, which rise from the grassy ground to assemble a ziggurat ascending to the ether.
In its heyday, the city was enclosed by a wall some 8km in circumference, enclosing at one corner a citadel that contained a ziggurat, temples, and palaces.
The Parthian palace and a temple close to the ziggurat are architectural testimonies of this period. Presently, residential areas of the Parthian period are being excavated.
This date is roughly the same as the ziggurat, it concerned a civilization of hunter-gatherers, capable of carving arrowheads, but not gigantic blocks.
The parallelepiped base, which also works as a mirror, is top¬ped by a layered pyramid or inverted ziggurat which grows broader on its overturned base.
An oval wall surrounded the temples and the ziggurat.
There were also palaces walled with a terrace in the form of a ziggurat, where gardens were an important feature.
Reawakening the old Central Library as a striking ziggurat building would have negated this year's Paradise Circus transport chaos.
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Every important city had its temple, and attached to its temple its ziggurat, which was a temple-observatory.
Near this arose the ziggurat or tower, and many smaller buildings, not unlike private dwellings.
The ziggurat at Borsippa had a base of earthwork 272 feet on each side, and was 26 feet high.
The inscribed bricks proved that this chamber, like the ziggurat itself was built by Ur-Engur.
It rather resembles a group of exaggerated sandhills, rising at one point into a blunt pyramid, the ziggurat.
The ziggurat was surrounded by an enclosure, some 400 yards square, the ingress and egress to which was by means of bronze gates.
But the things that took place on the ziggurat were invisible to them.
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