Example sentences for: guilds

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

  • The fortress-like exterior is decorated with 14 niches: to fill them, the major guilds commissioned statues of patron saints from Florence’s greatest talents (replicas now stand in their place).

  • Characteristic of the city’s civic consciousness, they portray the Life of Man from Adam’s creation to the rise of civilization through the arts and sciences — music, architecture, metallurgy, and the like — pursued so earnestly by the Florentine guilds that commissioned the work.

  • Crafts were usually not allowed, since the craft guilds excluded Jews; but Jews were allowed to engage in banking (and related industries, such as pawnbroking), mercantile pursuits, and long-distance trading.

  • Watch where you walk, as the cloister is paved with tombstones, badly worn, but many still bearing the emblems of the bootmakers, tailors, and other craft guilds whose wealth helped pay for the cathedral.

  • The state of Yamato, as early Japan was known, was organized into uji, or clusters of clans, together with subordinate guilds of farmers, fishermen, hunters, weavers, and potters, all subject to the dominant uji of the imperial family.


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