Example sentences for: cappella

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

  • Although the interior is temporarily closed to the public, tour buses line up for the jewel of the palace (and Palermo), one of Norman architecture’s greatest achievements in Italy, the 12th-century Palatine Chapel (Cappella Palatina).

  • At the back of the cloister of Santa Croce’s Franciscan monastery adjoining the church, Brunelleschi’s Pazzi Chapel (Cappella dei Pazzi) is a little gem of Renaissance elegance designed in 1443.

  • The best reason for seeing Forces of Nature --a sporadically funny but uneasily revisionist screwball comedy in which straight-arrow Ben Affleck is tempted from his imminent nuptials by free spirit Sandra Bullock and assorted natural disasters--is a scene in which the heartsick jock ex-boyfriend (David Strickland) of Affleck's fiancee (Maura Tierney) sings an a cappella version of Phil Collins' "Against All Odds (Take a Look At Me Now)" into her ear in the middle of a party.

  • The Princes’ Chapel (Cappella dei Principi) is a piece of 17th-century Baroque bombast in flamboyant multi-colored marbles, for which the altar was not completed, appropriately enough, until 1939.

  • Sometimes enshrined in the Chapel of the Holy Shroud (Cappella della Santa Sindone), it was brought to Turin in the 17th century after a journey 200 years earlier from Jerusalem to France via Cyprus.


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