Example sentences for: baroque

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

  • The rooms are still decorated and furnished with the Baroque pomp of the 17th and 18th centuries and reconstructed following Allied bomb damage in 1943.

  • The other church on the square, the bright white Igreja Misericórdia, features a terrific baroque façade but an unprepossessing interior.

  • Known locally as ca’ (short for casa) as well as palazzo, the marble, brick, and white limestone palaces range over 600 years from Venetian-Byzantine to Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassical, but most of them are exotically 14th- and 15th-­century Gothic, Venice’s “trademark” in architectural styles.

  • The last town on the north shore, Keszthely (pronounced kest-hey), was once owned entirely by the wealthy Festetics family, and their palace is one of Hungary’s most important Baroque monuments (open all year round).

  • In 1791 the seat of government and the governor’s (or captain general’s) residence were transferred from the fort to the newly built, baroque Palacio de los Capitanes Generales (Palace of the Captain Generals) on the square’s western flank.


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