Example sentences for: courtyard

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

  • 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.

  • The southern palace courtyard includes wing F, which houses the National Library and its two million books.

  • The fort’s vast interior courtyard now echoes with the sound of running children rather the marching of soldier’s boots, but one dormitory of the old barracks has been re-created, with bunks lining the walls and uniforms hung neatly on pegs.

  • Customers linger at courtyard tables, watching trinket vendors and pipe and tobacco salesmen ply their trade along the river promenade.

  • Only the inner courtyard of Rome’s finest Renaissance palace is accessible to the public, but its grand portico and the handsome stuccoed vestibule leading to it make it well worth a visit.


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