Example sentences for: edifices

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

  • Its riches and prestige called for a legacy, providing the funds for the gleaming white marble complex of religious edifices known as the Campo dei Miracoli (Field of Miracles), of which its leaning bell tower is a national icon, left unscathed by the invasions and wars of succeeding centuries.

  • Its 14th-century crenellated Palazzo dei Consoli is one of the grandest civic edifices in all Italy, and from the piazza and the palazzo’s belltower you have a magnificent panorama of the town and surrounding country.

  • Directly across from the Kumari Bahal stands the incongruous white Grecian facade of a palace wing that was built in 1908 by Prime Minister Chandra Shumshere, a Rana responsible for the Singha Durbar and many of the city’s neoclassical edifices.

  • This fortified town perched high on its hill works a sober charm among the buff-stone 13th-century edifices of its Piazza dei Priori and adjacent Piazza San Giovanni.

  • The gracious Piazza Vecchia is surrounded by Renaissance public edifices, notably the Palazzo della Ragione with a medieval Torre del Comune.


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