"building" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Many felt it looked out of place amongst the other much more ostentatious and taller colored-stone buildings.
- The flourishing bourgeoisie paid for lavish, ostentatious buildings, many of them in the unique, Modernista style.
- They're also big, formal images, and the very absurdity of doing formal Technicolor portraits of these ostentatious and mostly undistinguished buildings, each one behind its own set of tall gates, makes them seem oddly funny.
- This is one of several ostentatious buildings in the region paid ford by copper companies.
- By the early 1970s, most of the hospital's ostentatious, Victorian-era buildings were declared unsound and razed.
- At its centre is an obelisk dedicated to the Soviet troops who fell in the city, but the enormous, ostentatious buildings surrounding the square are what really steal the show.
- Classical authors such as Aeschines and Plutarch condemned the tryphé of Romans such as Crassus and Lucullus, which included lavish dinner parties and ostentatious buildings.
- You could say the Notre Dame is quaint in comparison to the Vatican, but when it comes to romance, perhaps visiting a less ostentatious building may be more your cup of tea.
- The ostentatious building was startling in its stark contrast with the students' primitive barracks.
- Avenida José A. Saco (more commonly called Enramada) is Santiago's main shopping thoroughfare, whose faded 1950s neon signs and ostentatious buildings recall more prosperous - and capitalist - times.
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