How to Use "edifice" with Example Sentences

1. Take it away and the edifice crumbles .
2. We have constructed the entire edifice of our civilisation on this idea .
3. Without the higgs , the maths which holds this edifice together would disintegrate .
4. Cracks are already visible in the edifice of european unity witness the strain on the schengen visa-free travel scheme .
5. The maastricht treaty of 1992 was the final step in the construction of the european edifice .