How to Use pagoda in a Sentence

pagoda

noun
Definition of pagodanext
Synonyms for pagodanext
  • In 1995, the pagoda opened on Cherry Street in New Britain.
    — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2022
  • With 20 laps to go, Boles heads to the plaza behind the pagoda to watch the race finale with fans.
    — Tyler Kraft, Indianapolis Star, 1 July 2019
  • There’s turkeys and palm trees and pagodas — a mix of things.
    — Drew Zeiba, Curbed, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The next stop is Hue and Da Nang, filled with temples, pagodas, palaces and tombs.
    — Ceylan Yeginsu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The pagoda is where the legendary White Maiden is locked.
    — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The pagoda’s retractable roof means guests may sit outside even in the rain.
    — Liz Biro, Indianapolis Star, 21 May 2018
  • The Tran Quoc Pagoda is the oldest pagoda in the city and is also one of the most gorgeous and sacred.
    — National Geographic, 26 Mar. 2019
  • Some are shaped like a candelabra, some like a pagoda, and some are tube-shaped.
    — Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Its orange pagodas can be seen in the distance from many trails in the area, but only one path leads right to it.
    — Laura Randall, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
  • Hanging string lights from a pagoda or trees is also a good call.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 23 June 2020
  • The pagoda mirror over the living room fireplace goes up to the ceiling, and so does the mirror in the dining room.
    — Lisa Cregan, House Beautiful, 28 Mar. 2016
  • The pagoda had high columns, flaring gables, and a fine layer of paint that looked like (but wasn’t) gold leaf.
    — Michael Scott Moore, The New Yorker, 25 May 2022
  • Instead, Boles works his way to the second floor of the pagoda, watching the milk bath unfold from a distance.
    — Tyler Kraft, Indianapolis Star, 1 July 2019
  • There is a swimming pool and two pagodas that serve as bath houses for swimmers.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 2 May 2018
  • Your tour today will begin with the temples and pagodas.
    — Antonia Neubauer, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • Just upstream is a lush park with a Chinese pagoda, and beyond that, the skyscrapers of downtown.
    — Kari Lydersen, Washington Post, 21 June 2019
  • The malls are situated between the Peace Plaza, where a five-tiered pagoda stands, a gift from the city of Osaka.
    — Shwanika Narayan, SFChronicle.com, 28 May 2020
  • The grounds come with a private lake and sandy beach, a guest cottage, a pool, a putting green, a 100-seat outdoor amphitheater and a pagoda with a fire pit.
    — Zlati Meyer and Liz Webber, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The four languages were carved in stone on different faces of a pillar at the Myazedi pagoda in Myanmar.
    — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2022
  • John McCain parachuted into the lake that surrounds the pagoda when his aircraft was shot down in 1967.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Noise from the nearby pagoda roused Aung and his family before dawn on April 9.
    — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The agency proposed marking temples, for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, with a more generic pictogram of a pagoda.
    — Anne Quito, Quartz, 24 Dec. 2019
  • The first concept for the Chinatown arch was a massive concrete structure with a pagoda-like tiled roof.
    — Bill Van Niekerken, SFChronicle.com, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Pinned sharply at the waist with shoulder turned upward in a very slight pagoda fashion, the leaf crepe jacket felt fitting for not just a British Princess, but a Queen-to-be.
    — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Li was waiting there on a wooden pagoda with a picnic of fresh fruits and vegetables.
    — Oscar Schwartz, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The company plans a $1 million makeover that will include an Asian-style gate and pagoda-style roofs on the center’s five buildings.
    — Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Every evening the residents of the city assemble at the pagoda to meditate and pay their respects to the Buddha.
    — Antonia Neubauer, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • The 30-odd resident cats sleep on velvet cushions, climb trees, flit in and out of cat-size pagodas, and bask in the sun, completely content.
    — Hanya Yanagihara, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2017
  • In the southern town of Qingyuan, a lone white pagoda stood above waters that had submerged smaller buildings nearby.
    — Eva Dou, Washington Post, 8 July 2022
  • But most of the resplendent old churches, pagodas, and monasteries were now derelict shells or razed to the ground—the Khmer Rouge had demolished many places of worship.
    — Chantha Nguon, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024

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