Example sentences for: courtyard

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

  • The lavish red and gold building is now a spacious exhibition site housing art and architecture exhibits in and around its skylighted inner courtyard area.

  • In the first courtyard is the stable, which houses the shrine’s sacred white horse; the carved panel above the door is the famous group of three monkeys — “Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil! ”

  • In 1846, during the course of an unsavory palace intrigue involving an unsolved murder, meddling by the queen, and the massacre of some 100 high-ranking court figures who had been lured to a palace courtyard, the instigator of these events became the power behind the throne.

  • The symmetry of the large central courtyard has a simple elegance.

  • At the rear of the complex there is a large rock garden, a courtyard, and classrooms where many novice monks are trained in Daoism.


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