Example sentences for: crowning

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

  • And there was one of Cartier's glorious tiaras on loan, crowning the head of a 6-foot African-American lady wearing the perfect silvery backless gown to go with it--but alas, she had to be followed everywhere by security guards.

  • Crowning seven hills along the winding banks of the River Tiber, Rome has numerous different personalities: ancient Rome of imperial ruins; Catholic Rome of Vatican City and countless churches; the Renaissance city of Michelangelo and Raphael or the Baroque of Bernini and Borromini; and a modern metropolis of interminable traffic jams, fashionable boutiques and cafés, as well as factories and characterless apartment buildings that make up the post-war eye-sore suburbs.

  • Life was the unique and sacred phenomenon of which we humans were the crowning glory.

  • It has been used during crowning ceremonies for all English (then British) monarchs since that time, sitting under the coronation throne throughout the ceremony.

  • The Citadel crowning the hill was built by the Habsburgs after the Revolution of 1848 as a lookout point from which to control neighbouring Castle Hill.


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