Example sentences for: canvases

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

  • The tree and alignment canvases are scrollable in two dimensions, and have a practical capacity of more than 150 sequences of less than 400 amino acids, on a Pentium workstation with 256 M of RAM.

  • Despite the inclusion of canvases by Salvador Dali, Max Beckmann, Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger, and Piet Mondrian, the art is said to be unexceptional, since only Beckmann and Mondrian did their best work in exile.

  • Courbet was painting his vast canvases of provincial life, and Manet his Déjeuner sur l’Herbe.

  • Room 21: Vittore Carpaccio depicts in nine canvases the bizarre Story of St. Ursula, a British princess, said to have led 11,000 virgins on a pilgrimage to Rome, all of whom were raped and slaughtered on their way back.

  • One of Tintoretto’s best, the Marriage at Cana, is on the wall opposite the entrance, while three of Titian’s most vivid canvases decorate the chancel: Cain and Abel, Abraham Sacrificing Isaac, and David and Goliath, their drama heightened by the perspective di sotto in su (looking up from below).


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