Example sentences for: holyrood

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

  • From Grassmarket, a road runs parallel to the Royal Mile to Holyrood on a lower level.

  • Outside, set in manicured gardens, are the remains of the Abbey of Holyrood.

  • The palace, much altered over the generations, was generally used as a residence only at times of dynastic importance or danger, when Holyrood, down in the lowland, was difficult to defend.

  • When the castle was built atop the hill, the original city of Edinburgh grew on this ridge, reaching down in a ribbon of development toward the Abbey of Holyrood, at the foot of the hill in the east.

  • Since then, almost every reigning monarch has spent time (or held soirées) at Holyrood.


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