Example sentences for: colonnade

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

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

  • 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.

  • A small temple to Hathor sitting to the left of the colonnade has columns carved with the cow’s head that depicted her.

  • From the hall, a colonnade leads to an immense hypostyle (with columns supporting the roof) hall, decorated with double rows of papyrus columns with beautifully preserved colors, and on to the Court of Amenophis III.


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