Example sentences for: friezes

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

  • They include Clients Consulting a Sorceress and Strolling Musicians, vivid little friezes of an octopus, a cat catching a quail, and the huge exciting mural of Alexander driving Darius of Persia from the battlefield at Issus in 333 b.c.

  • Genuine Spanish tilework sits beside locally made copies; a Roman sarcophagus and a 3,500-year-old Egyptian goddess are both authentic, but the castle’s façade, with its equestrian friezes on the balcony and Gothic-style canopies, is made almost completely of reinforced concrete.

  • Mary, Queen of Scots, later occupied apartments here, and there are decorative friezes in the rooms from that time.

  • Housed in a 16th-century monastery, the Archaeological Museum (Piazza Olivella) displays superb statues and sculpted metope (friezes) from Sicily’s various archaeological sites, highlighted by those from the Greek temples of Selinunte (600–500 b.c. ), on Sicily’s south coast.

  • Porcelain friezes adorn the rooftops and ridgepoles, telling the story of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.


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