Example sentences for: dragon-killer

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

  • Look for Ghiberti’s vigorous bronze of the city’s patron St. John (east wall, on the Via de’ Calzaiuoli); St. Matthew, the bankers’ tax-collector turned Apostle (west); Donatello’s St. George, the armorers’ dragon-killer (north, a bronze cast of a marble original in the Bargello); St. Mark, whose vividly sculpted robes do credit to the linen-drapers he protects (south); and Nanni di Banco’s outstanding conspiratorial group of Four Crowned Martyrs for the sculptors’ own guild of stonemasons and wood-workers (north).

  • Room 4: Andrea Mantegna (a brother-in-law of the Bellini family) shows why St. George, the dragon-killer, became the most appropriate patron saint for England.


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