Example sentences for: fourth-century

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

  • The nearby Arch of Constantine celebrates the fourth-century emperor’s battlefield conversion to Christianity.

  • Deir Es-Suryani, as the name suggests, was a community of Syrian monks and its neighbor, Deir Anba Bishoi, is of typical design with a tiny round-domed fourth-century church and inner defensive bastion dating from the ninth century.

  • Inside, left of the Baroque nave, go down to Naples’ earliest known Christian sanctuary, the fourth-century Ba­si­li­ca of Santa Restituta, in which the original Roman columns survived the 1688 earthquake.

  • His antiquities collection is impressive, highlighted by the “Getty bronze,” a fourth-century b.c. statue of an Olympic champion, believed by some experts to be the only remaining work of Lysippus, court sculptor of Alexander the Great.

  • Next to the present-day 19th-century cathedral, the fourth-century Battistero Neoniano (Baptistery of Bishop Neon) has a fine mosaic procession of the Apostles.


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