Example sentences for: doric

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

  • The metopes (carved space on a Doric frieze) around the entablature depict the legendary feats of Heracles and Theseus.

  • A series of six Doric columns mark the transition into the Propylaia following which there are four symmetrical rooms, two on either side of the walkway.

  • 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.

  • Italy has no more magnificent testimony of its Greek colonies than this complex of wonderfully preserved Doric temples, a 40-minute drive south from Salerno, dating back to the fifth and sixth centuries b.c.

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


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