Example sentences for: columbian

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

  • The only people who have embraced all of Canada’s vast territory are the Inuit and other pre-Columbian peoples, even though they now number less than half a million and have never been many more.

  • It is -assumed the custom has origins in pre-Columbian cultures, as a coming-of-age ritual for young women.

  • The huge collection includes pre-Columbian earthenware figures, brilliant Italian Renaissance Majolica, more sedate but elegant Dutch and English Delftware of the 16th and 17th centuries, and the Rococo forms of German Meissen porcelain.

  • This tradition has been linked to Mexico’s indigenous heritage, for, as Terry Jordan states, “Such use of color in a sacred context has ample pre-Columbian precedent in Mexico, where even the huge pyramids once bore bright paints” (80).

  • The Carré Rive Gauche, bounded by the quai Voltaire, the boulevard St-Germain, and the rues du Bac and des Sts-Pères, is something of a museum of ancient Egyptian, Chinese, pre-Columbian, African, and Polynesian art, as well as Louis XV, Second Empire, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco.


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