Example sentences for: hadrian

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

  • Built by Emperor Hadrian around a.d. 125 on an earlier site destroyed by fire, it achieved a marvel of engineering with its magnificent coffered dome: over 43 m (141 ft) in interior diameter (larger than St. Peter’s), exactly equal to its height.

  • Follow the old Roman chariot road (repaved) of Via Tiburtina 30 km (19 miles) east of the capital to the haunting ruins of Hadrian’s Villa (Villa Adriana), near the picturesque town of Tivoli, at the foot of the Sabine Hills.

  • But the invader had better come prepared if he ventures beyond Hadrian's Wall.

  • Even after Hadrian’s Wall was built in the second century a.d. , marauding bands from the north figured out a way to circumvent this formidable line of defense by launching their boats across the Solway Firth, landing on the coast of Cumbria south of the Wall, and attacking the Romans from behind.

  • When Adrianou meets Odós Eolou, it is cut by excavations on the site of Hadrian’s Library (Adrianou once passed directly through the site and still continues on the other side).


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