Example sentences for: fifth-century

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

  • Besides waterslides and windsurfers, the outline of a fifth-century basilica discovered in 1951, is visible next to the beach at its eastern end.

  • The most spectacular, directly opposite the entrance to the site, is the fifth-century b.c.

  • At the end of the right nave is the fifth-century domed baptistery, one of the oldest buildings known in Christian Europe with some original mosaics still intact.

  • The thriving city has long since spread beyond the fifth-century Byzantine walls built by the Emperor Theodosius II, and now sprawls for miles along the shores of the Sea of Marmara on both the European and Asian sides.

  • Perched on the Gargano heights south of the forest, Monte Sant’Angelo was a major medieval pilgrimage town, celebrated for its fifth-century sanctuary of St. Michael in a grotto where the archangel appeared to the Bishop of Siponto three times.


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