Example sentences for: frieze

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

  • Look for the frieze of 16th-century tiles on the life of St. Paul in the entryway of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

  • Its convex façade has a sculptured frieze depicting Julius Philopappos riding a chariot and performing his duties in the Senate.

  • 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.

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

  • The metopes (carved space on a Doric frieze) around the entablature depict the legendary feats of Heracles and Theseus.


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