Example sentences for: palatial

How can you use “palatial” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • REI recently cashiered its funky Capitol Hill warehouse store for a palatial flagship pavilion visible from Interstate 5, the Space Needle, and probably the space shuttle, too.

  • The first palatial structures at Knossós, and other great cities such as Phaistós and Mália, were erected around 2000 b.c., but these were destroyed by an earthquake 300 years later.

  • The adjacent Palatine Hill, which was eventually reserved for imperial structures (whence our words palace and palatial ), was derived from the name of Pallas , son of Evander, a Greek who according to epic tradition settled on the site of Rome centuries before its “real” founding.

  • The Carriage Museum (Museo delle Carrozze), in a wing on the far right of the palace, and the Royal Apartments (Appartamenti Monumentali), upstairs, right of the main entrance, show an opulent, truly palatial life that the palazzo’s dour exterior never lets you suspect.

  • It is undoubtedly a serious art collection, but its setting — in a vast replica of a palatial Roman villa — has something of the pretentious inclinations of San Simeon, without Hearst’s pick-and-mix flamboyance.


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