Example sentences for: arches

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

  • Look out for the railway station, Estação do Rossio, which looks like a Moorish palace with horseshoe arches, just west of the square.

  • Today it is a busy place, with coachloads of tourists peering through the arches for one of the city’s finest views — across the Danube and over to the Houses of Parliament.

  • Modeled on a Venetian loggia, the cloister, delicate arches, and salmon-pink marble walls enclose a stunning, atmospheric space lined with mosaic and filled with foliage and classical statuary.

  • The deep blue, gold, and crimson mosaics on the vaults and arches depict St. Laurence, the Apostles, and the Good Shepherd Feeding His Sheep (over the entrance).

  • Many dispute the modern scientific tests that have proven it to be a medieval fabrication, and crowds of faithful and merely curious still visit its black marble chapel, a masterpiece of Guarini’s High Baroque, with its cone-shaped, six-tiered dome formed by a web of intersecting arches that rise to a 12-pointed star.


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