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:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast