Example sentences for: augustus

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

  • Maggs is delightfully atmospheric and full of peel-away details, shit-rimmed cobblestones and stinking . The quaintly elaborate names--Percival Clarence Buckle, Mercy Larkin, Sophina Smith--are a lively match for Dickens' Uriah Heeps and Augustus Snodgrasses.

  • Here, just inside the doorway of the Centre Excursionista de Catalunya, four columns of the Roman Temple of Augustus are embedded in the wall.

  • Thus the French île reminds us that the word was once spelled isle , from Latin insula; the name of the eight month, Août , reminds us that it came from the Latin augustus; and être betrays its origins as Latin esse with the same orthographical scar.

  • The top floor, covering the first two decades of the century, begins with works that 19 th -century types, such as Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens, happened to produce after 1900.

  • Most impressive monument of the Imperial Forums, built as an adjunct to the Roman Forum in honor of Julius Caesar, Augustus, Trajan, Vespasian, and Domitian, is the 30-m- (100-ft-) high Trajan’s Column (a.d.


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