Example sentences for: colosseum

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

  • The major Italian guidebook to Rome soberly claims that this building has been nicknamed Il Colosseo Quadrato , `The Square Colosseum.

  • For their churches and private palaces, popes and princes have stripped the Colosseum of its precious marble, travertine, and metal.

  • The circular Pantheon (Piazza della Rotonda) is the best-preserved monument of ancient Rome and rivals the Colosseum in its combination of quiet elegance and sheer massive power.

  • On a site once 25 times the size of the Colosseum, only 30 rooms of the 250-room palace can be visited, and by guided tour only.

  • From its grassy knolls, enjoy the fine view back over the Colosseum or southward over the great Circus Maximus, where chariot races were held for crowds of up to 200,000.


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