What is "archways"

Usage examples of "archways".

On three hills rising on the promontory that overlooked the sea rose the remains of a great city, now vandalized and tumbled into a shambles that nevertheless left those who approached it gaping in wonder at the columns and archways, the broken aqueducts and fallen walls, the intricate layout of a grand city that had once ruled the Middle Sea.

Through open archways I saw sunken pools, mosaic courtyards, Ortheans sleeping in the sun after the noon meal.

I have seen these archways when they glowed, each one opening to a separate world, a jewel-box of landscapes, skies, stars and seas.

The silhouettes of domes and archways were fringed with stars, with clouds of light.

She saw more of the mammoth tusk archways along the sides, and wondered where they led, but she hesitated to ask.

The drops trickling from branches and archways in the first unfrozen noon warmth hardened into icicles as the nights cooled.

Then she arose and padded like a wan-eyed ghost along unseen ways she knew well, feeling turns and archways with her fingertips, seeking the sliding panel that opened into the back of the wardrobe in her own bedchamber.

The queen looped her chain of coins around the wrist of one of them and towed him playfully off across the dim and crowded maze of tables, beaded curtains, and archways that formed the backbone of the Goblet.

One dark and disused chamber proved to lead into another, through a succession of open archways, and El took care to keep out of sight of anyone glancing back, and freeze whenever the sounds ahead ceased.

Here and there ceilings or roofing had survived, though all of the archways gaped open and doorless, and there were no signs that anyone.

Above, a spiderweb of age-old metal drums, bridges, archways, and tubes threaded the darkness.