Example sentences for: façade

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

  • While its façade is more sober than the exultant Baroque churches put up as the movement gained momentum, the interior glorifies the new militancy in gleaming bronze, gold, marble, and precious stones.

  • Founded by King Dom Pedro II in 1698, the church has an impressive, scroll-decorated Baroque façade, brilliant white dome, stone belltower, and a chapel at the rear, Nossa Senhora dos Aflitos (Our Lady of the Afflicted), where women often pray when their fishermen husbands are away at sea.

  • First, sit at a café table in the Plaza de los Naranjos (Square of the Orange Trees), where you can admire the noble 16th-century façade of the Casa Consistorial (Town Hall) and soak up the atmosphere.

  • The building’s star feature is the flamboyant Gothic façade of the Capella de Sant Jordi.

  • Hong Kong’s major venue for the performing arts, the building has been criticized for its fortress-like architecture and windowless façade.


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