Example sentences for: courtyard

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

  • That idea bore fruit in 1292 with the casting of the 120-ton Daibutsu in the courtyard of Kotoku-in temple — after Mr. Fuji, probably the most photographed icon of Japan.

  • The new palace centered on an open courtyard with a west wing mainly consisting of magazines (storerooms) and cult rooms.

  • Across a vast, horseshoe-shaped courtyard, you come across the exquisite Rococo style of Louis XV’s time in the apartments of the Prince and Princess of Soubise.

  • Adjacent to the Forest of Stupas is the most popular display at Shaolin, a courtyard of open-air pavilions containing scores of wooden statues��— monks in all the classic poses of a feverish kung fu battle.

  • At the eastern end of Via San Vittore, beyond a noble atrium courtyard, the church of Sant’ Ambrogio is the city’s most revered sanctuary, built from the ninth to the 12th centuries.


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