Example sentences for: grecian

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

  • Napoléon added the Grecian columns facing the Pont de la Concorde, but the palace is more graceful seen from its entrance on the south side.

  • The baron was also toying with the idea of replacing the gracious red brick houses of the triangular place Dauphine with a neo-Grecian colonnaded square when, thankfully, he was forced out of office for juggling the books.

  • Burne-Jones' lovers seem always in freeze frame, like the frustrated couple in that Pre-Raphaelite touchstone, Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn": "Bold lover, never, never canst thou kiss,/ Though winning near the goal."

  • Directly across from the Kumari Bahal stands the incongruous white Grecian facade of a palace wing that was built in 1908 by Prime Minister Chandra Shumshere, a Rana responsible for the Singha Durbar and many of the city’s neoclassical edifices.

  • When Keats looks at the painted figures and trees on the Grecian urn (in "Ode on a Grecian Urn"), he is not just happy that these apparitions will never fade, because they are art, and thus permanent; he is happy that they have never had to live, that they are not suffering: "Ah, happy, happy boughs!


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