Example sentences for: façades

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

  • Its white gables are clothed in Carrara marble, the outer façades with a combination of grey marble and glass; the inside walls are covered with aluminum.

  • Architecturally, though, the two buildings make a harmonious pair: both have classical façades that hide their Gothic origins.

  • Kodály körönd (Kodály crescent, named after another Hungarian composer) is a splendid ensemble, its curving façades decorated with Classical figures and inlaid motifs.

  • Crowds of humble mortals stride the pavements down below while, three or four stories above, on the façades of buildings, a very different crowd of carved stone beings, the Olympian gods and goddesses, throng the upper air, in clear illustration of the dualistic character of all existence: mortals below, immortals above, flesh here, stone there; the ever-changing, the everlasting.

  • Restrained old façades hide picturesque courtyards, and there are some half-dozen squares, each boasting a crumbling and still functioning old church.


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