Example sentences for: mansion

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

  • Some loanwords undergo a semantic shift, as with manshon high-class apartment block (from mansion ), konpanion female guide or hostess (from companion ), and baikingu buffet meal, smorgasbord (from Vi-king ). Clippings and blends are common, such as terebi television, masukomi mass communication, and wapuro word processor.

  • At the center of the town is the broad Avenida Carvalho Araújo, where you will find the cathedral and the tourist office in an old mansion.

  • On the west side of the Back Lakes is Prince Gong’s Mansion (Gong Wang Fu), Beijing’s best-preserved example of an imperial mansion.

  • Chief among his many conquests is Olivia, his current girlfriend, a beauty who enthralls him by night in the ramshackle mansion he's never bothered to fix up and disappoints him by day in her modest desire for a career no greater than that of a nurse's aide.

  • Opposite the modern art gallery is the Dean Gallery, occupying a fine Victorian mansion that was once an orphanage.


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