How to Use nave in a Sentence

nave

noun
Definition of navenext
  • The man’s grave was found beneath the church’s south nave.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The Danish word for nave is the same as its word for ship.
    — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2023
  • Scientists are grouped at the far end of the nave, by the north side of the choir screen.
    — Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The Unknown Warrior, whose body was brought from France in 1920, is buried in the abbey’s nave.
    — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Perched at the top of a large staircase, this cathedral is home to the widest Gothic nave in the world.
    — Dina Mishev, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
  • Rainey’s service will be 11 a.m. Wednesday in the church’s nave.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 20 June 2022
  • Then there’s the very final scene, where the camera is perched high up as the Queen walks across the nave of the cathedral toward the door.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The former nave of the church is home to a two-story nightclub called The Angeles.
    — Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Inside the 120-year-old church, the nave will be home to a large nightclub called the Abbey, scheduled to open around the same time as the restaurant.
    — Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The former nave of the church will be home to a two-story nightclub called The Angeles.
    — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Dec. 2021
  • In the nave of the Roman parish church of San Lorenzo in Lucina, a plaque was erected in 2010.
    — Julian Bell, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The main altar at the front of the nave — the central part of the sanctuary — is raised a few steps, so the water did not reach it, Reimann said.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2021
  • In a side aisle off the central nave, portraits of war dead from 2014 to the present gaze out from mountings on placards.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2022
  • The processional from the narthex down the nave to the altar has been compressed into a passage of just a few steps.
    — Curbed, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Your eye is drawn up the Italian-marble walls and the glowing white ribs, and you are reminded of the nave of a great cathedral.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 1 Feb. 2023
  • There will be a private burial at 1 p.m. followed by a 3 p.m. service in the nave and a 4 p.m. reception at the Chapel of St. John’s.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 20 June 2022
  • Hundreds of Muslim men knocked down the walls, desecrated the nave, burned copies of the Bible, and set fire to the furniture.
    — Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Small figures of visitors moving along the great concourse that is the nave.
    — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Nowhere more so than when Pinocchio, standing in the nave of a church, stares up at a Crucifixion.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2022
  • In the nave: a stage, thumping bass, a haze of smoke, and a shadowy figure at the pulpit, presumably Fatboy Slim.
    — Sheila Yasmin Marikar, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
  • Soft trade winds blew through the open-air nave, and worshippers sang hymns in mellifluous Hawaiian.
    — Annie Rogers, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The church, with a soaring modern nave, serves a parish of about twenty-five hundred families.
    — Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 30 July 2022
  • After that ceremony, the priest turned to the family across the central nave.
    — New York Times, 16 Oct. 2021
  • Gilbert is still working out how to use most of the church nave, an open space with slender, Gothic columns under a sky-blue ceiling.
    — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 29 Nov. 2020
  • Large photographs that document the human toll of the siege of Bucha lean on easels inside the church’s bright white, mostly empty nave.
    — Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Yet the monks also wanted a work by a famous artist for the church’s choir windows, a focal point behind the altar, where the morning sun shines through into the nave.
    — New York Times, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Rows of pews were replaced by movable chairs, the altar was moved forward into the nave and the tabernacle was relocated to a side chapel.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2022
  • At the service, people secured their standing spots throughout the nave after entering the church.
    — Mariya Manzhos, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The pair played a more public role on Friday, walking into the church on their own, holding hands and proceeding down the long nave of the cathedral ahead of more senior royals.
    — Danica Kirka, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2022
  • On Sunday, as people milled about between services, a family group gathered in the church’s nave for a baptism.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2022

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