Example sentences for: colonnades

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

  • Behind the colonnades on the Middle Terrace, to the left of the ramp, are carved scenes depicting a trade mission bringing myrrh and incense from Egypt’s neighbor Punt, now Somalia.

  • Brunelleschi’s design was never completed but the interior preserves the spatial clarity of his Corinthian-capitaled colonnades.

  • Ionic colonnades frame the walkway (this was the first building to incorporate both styles of column).

  • The sweeping curves of the colonnades reach out to the unending stream of pilgrims from Rome itself and the whole world, urbi et orbi, to take them into the bosom of the church beyond.

  • It is easy to miss, but once you have spotted it, cross the street and look back at the faded, ancient sign and the colonnades on the wall above.


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