Example sentences for: pavilions

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

  • Built to re-create the classic garden portrayed in the popular Chinese novel The Dream of the Red Chamber, it is filled with traditional features of 18th-century Mandarin estates: lakes, pavilions, arched bridges, and pagodas.

  • At the rear of Wanshou Temple is a large rock garden with shrines to the gods of three of Buddhism’s sacred mountains in China, two pavilions built in 1761 (one housing a stone tablet with the engraved signature of Emperor Qianlong), and two arched gates constructed in the style of 18th-century Europe.

  • A group of temples called Jinci, 25 km (16 miles) southwest of the city at the foot of Xuanweng Mountain, is thought to be more than one thousand years old, consisting of nearly a hundred pavilions, halls, terraces, and bridges.

  • This sprawling compound of courtyards and showy 19th-century pavilions is decorated in a pantheon of finely carved friezes, gates, and gold-leaf tableaux depicting scenes of Chinese myth and romance.

  • There are also fine views of the lakes, temples, pavilions, and pagodas below, which can be explored upon return.


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