Example sentences for: franciscans

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

  • San Franciscans are quite unashamedly in love with their town.

  • Charlotte was bad enough, but by suggesting that the HQ is now also in much despised L.A., where San Franciscans say the definition of Old Money is someone whose checks clear the bank the first time, was a very bitter pill.

  • To old San Franciscans, people whose hands have shaken the hands of those who came in the Gold Rush, the move is an act of lèse-majesté, an impertinence rivaling only that of Billy Ralston, who chose to go for a refreshing swim in the harbor one day in 1875 when his mighty Bank of California was crashing, rather than stay at the office.

  • Nearby is the immense brick and white-marble Gothic Church of the Frari (full name Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, built by the Franciscans), above all celebrated for the high altar adorned with Titian’s jubilant Assumption of the Virgin.

  • To many San Franciscans, the rejection of the city is regarded as an insult to BofA founder A.P.


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