Example sentences for: aisle

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

  • In the third bay on the north aisle is Paolo Uccello’s statue-like equestrian painting of the 15th-century English mercenary Sir John Hawkwood (unpronounceable for Italians, so known as Giovanni Acuto).

  • In sharp contrast, the Ghirlandaio frescoes in its tiny Santa Fina Chapel (at the end of the right aisle) are a series of sophisticated social portraits (1475) dedicated to the young patron saint of San Gimignano.

  • In the grandiose interior, the luminous 12th- and 13th-century mosaics of the nave and apse depict the complete cycle of the Old Testament, replete with a 66-ft high Christ Pantocrator with saints, while the aisle mosaics narrate the miracles of Jesus.

  • A highway interchange, a parking lot filled with cars, a traffic jam, suburban tract housing, an apartment building with numerous satellite dishes, an office with many computer screens, office workers on a busy street, high-rise office buildings, a "factory farm" with many chickens, a supermarket aisle, a McDonald's arch.

  • In Ghirlandaio’s Madonna of Mercy (right aisle, 2nd bay), portrayed immediately to the right of Mary is the Florentine banker-navigator-cartographer Amerigo Vespucci, who gave his name to the continent of America (and whose family was a sponsor of this church).


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