Example sentences for: doric

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

  • There actually are 86, Doric in style, in what was to have been the colony’s covered market.

  • The classical cloister has Ionic columns on the first level and Doric on the second.

  • To call the Scots tongue Doric (meaning broad or rustic) is to perpetuate the notion that it is the speech of uneducated country folk, an idea still endorsed by snobbish anglophiles in Scotland.

  • Of the 34 Doric columns only 15 are still in situ, and the ornate frieze on the pediment and entablature has been ravaged by the salty air, but the whole effect of the building combined with the setting — with beach on one side and sheer drop on the other — is magnificent.

  • Stand on either of the circular paving stones set between the square’s twin 17th-century fountains and the red granite Egyptian obelisk to appreciate the harmony of the quadruple rows of Doric columns, so perfectly aligned that they seem like a single row.


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