Example sentences for: madrid

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

  • Madrid’s easy embrace of extremes — it is both the capital of a technology-dependent country that exploded since becoming part of the European Union just 15 years ago and at heart a small town that revels in its castizo traditions — is part of life here.

  • King Alfonso XIII, who linked the 19th and 20th centuries, inaugurated the Madrid Metro (underground railway) and University City.

  • It was he who ordered the construction of the Plaza Mayor, the magnificent main square that still dignifies the center of the Viejo Madrid.

  • Bombings like those in Bali in 2003 or Madrid in 2004, while able to take hundreds of lives, can be mounted locally.

  • The elegant (and today traffic-choked) Gran Vía, Madrid’s central shopping artery, is a turn-of-the century showcase of Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles.


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