Example sentences for: colonnade

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

  • The truly mind-boggling variety of that collection begins to register as you pass the 104-ft- (32-m-) long Roman mosaic swimming pool, complete with Greek colonnade and a copy of Donatello’s Florentine statue of David.

  • At the center, Piazza dei Signori is graced by Palladio’s first public work, the Basilica Palladina (1549), not a church at all, but the old Roman concept of a gathering place for the lawcourts and assemby hall of the Gothic Palazzo della Ragione that it encases with a colonnade and loggia.

  • Much of the north and west wall of the Agora lies unexcavated under the houses of Plaka, but the south wall and the remains of the south colonnade are there, along with a series of shops near the ticket office.

  • Built from 1532 to 1637, the main structure is late Gothic with a somewhat incongruous but imposing Renaissance colonnade on its western façade.

  • The tomb of Mohammed Ali sits under the colonnade.


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