Example sentences for: chapels

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

  • Its walls are lined entirely with blue-and-white checked-pattern azulejos and it has a beautifully painted wood ceiling, 10 chandeliers, and a massively gilded altar and side chapels.

  • Mormons (or Latter-day Saints , as well call ourselves-not out of a sense of spiritual superiority, it is to be hoped, but because of a reference of St. Paul's to the members of the ancient church being called saints) have two basic types of religious buildings: chapels and temples and they are as different as synogogues and temples are in Judaism.

  • Massive without, and richly decorated within, the cathedral contains over 30 chapels, including the central Capilla Mayor with its Flemish altarpiece, and the Capilla Real (Royal Chapel), last resting place of Ferdinand III, the “King-Saint” who delivered Sevilla from the hands of the infidel.

  • The wealthy or upper classes were able to build small chapels on their ranches, while the poorer classes built small nichos and altars in their homes, in kitchens or other rooms, for private prayer and devotion.

  • Igreja de São Pedro (Church of St. Peter), built in the 16th century, has a carved Baroque retable and a couple of Rococo chapels.


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