Example sentences for: colonnades

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

  • 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.

  • A Grand Staircase then led north to the most important official chambers within this wing, its sturdy painted colonnades typical of those found throughout the palace.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.


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