Example sentences for: cathedrals

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

  • After the more sober spirituality of the Romanesque churches, the soaring Gothic cathedrals of Chartres, Paris (Notre-Dame), Bourges, and Amiens were at once monuments to the glory of God and testimony to the sheer power, spiritual and temporal, of the Roman Catholic Church.

  • Building on the huge success of his series paintings of the 1890s--the cathedrals and haystacks (now awkwardly renamed "grainstacks") and rows of poplars--Monet could afford to paint for himself alone.

  • On either side of the museum are Coimbra’s two cathedrals, the classical-baroque Sé Nova (New Cathedral) and the vastly more interesting Sé Velha (Old Cathedral).

  • The fine Romanesque bulk of the old cathedral is reminiscent of the early crusading cathedrals of Lisbon and Porto.

  • Unlike Christianity’s massive gothic cathedrals, designed to convey a strong sense of permanence, this austere wooden structure is dismantled every 20 years and replaced by a new one.


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