Example sentences for: frieze

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

  • The entrance hall also portrays famous Scots in a beautifully detailed frieze just below the cornice; it’s a veritable “Who’s Who” of the Scottish establishment.

  • Each of the eight faces corresponds to a cardinal point on the compass and is decorated with an ornate frieze depicting the wind blowing from that direction.

  • In the apse there’s a moving mosaic of the Madonna above a frieze of the 12 Apostles.

  • The simple, rounded female figures were funerary or religious objects and are in total contrast to the intricate pediment and frieze carvings and religious statuary found at temples on the Acropolis and in the Acropolis Museum.

  • The scooped-out city canyon, embellished with a frieze of human heads at the bottom (, 1915), was a theme that looked new in the work of Gary Winogrand in the 1960s.


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