Example sentences for: european-style

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

  • Most of Osaka’s municipal buildings are on Nakanoshima, including an elegant European-style town hall dating from 1918, one of the few red-brick buildings in Japan.

  • There are few sites of historical interest in this municipality of over 9 million people, yet over a thousand European-style buildings survived the 1976 earthquake, many of them on the riverside (Taierzhanglu).

  • Its stately European-style buildings have since been restored, largely for use as government offices and foreign legations.

  • Eastern tribes, for example, used to delight and amaze early colonists with their resonant and evocative names--names that, when translated, turned out to have much of the broad humor and graphic wit of European-style nicknames.

  • At Ieyasu’s command, Adams (the model for the hero of James Clavell’s novel Shogun) set up a shipyard in Ito and built Japan’s first two European-style ocean-going vessels.


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