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.

  • Splendidly ornate stone friezes realistically depict battle scenes of World War I, with each branch of the forces represented.

  • Much of the fine statuary and carved friezes still present when Ottoman forces left have been displayed here along with four of the original Caryatid statues from the Erechtheíon.

  • Countless Renaissance and Baroque sculptors have drawn inspiration from the friezes on the triple Arch of Septimius Severus (honoring a third-century emperor who died in York, England, the northernmost boundary of the empire).

  • 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.


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