Example sentences for: château

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

  • More palazzo than château, with its frescoes and reinforced concrete columns clad in Italian marble, the museum is devoted principally to international modern design in ceramics, glass, and textiles from 1940 to the present day.

  • Set in lovely grounds, the château used to be the home of Napoléon’s wife, Josephine, who continued to live here after their divorce.

  • Start on top of the rock, where the city’s principal landmark is a hotel, the Château Frontenac, looming over the town since 1892 like the protective fortress it no longer needs.

  • At 17 quai d’Anjou is the grand Hôtel Lauzun, built in the 1650s by Le Vau, who worked on the riverfront façade of the Louvre and the Versailles château.

  • At the great Sauternes vineyard Château d'Yquem they make none of their legendary wine if the weather has been particularly bad--a crippling financial decision, less and less likely to be made as the old standards of the owner, the Comte de Lurs-Saluces, are replaced by those of management gnomes.


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