Example sentences for: gothic-

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

  • The sights are endless: the Hindu gopuram tower-gates of the south, the temples of Varanasi (Benares), the cave monasteries of Ajanta and Ellora, the beautiful and erotic sculptures of Khajuraho, the splendid marble palaces, fortresses, and mausoleums of the emperors and maharajas in Delhi, Agra, and Rajasthan, the colonial government buildings in New Delhi, or the unusual style of the Gothic-Oriental railway station in Mumbai (known until 1995 as Bombay).

  • Because of its dramatic location and the fairytale turrets of its Gothic-Renaissance architecture, the Frontenac is one of the most charmingly bombastic of all the many grand hotels that the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways put up across the country as symbols of their commercial power.

  • Visits to the tombs outside of town are organized from the National Museum, housed in the fine 15th-century Gothic-Renaissance Palazzo Vitelleschi as you enter Tarquinia.

  • Como itself is a large factory town famous for its centuries-old silk production, but it has a handsome Gothic-Renaissance cathedral crowned by a superb Baroque dome that was added in 1744 by Turin’s great architect, Filippo Juvarra.


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