Example sentences for: marble

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

  • Massive marble mausoleums line the principal avenues of the cemetery, a vast city of the dead established in the late 1800s.

  • North of Temple Valley, next to the 13th-century Norman church of San Nicola, the small but important Archaeological Museum has a fine marble statue of Ephebus (fifth century b.c. ), a gigantic telamon, a 25-ft sculpted male figure used to hold up a temple roof’s entablature, and some superb Greek wine vessels.

  • Its principal interest for many Americans, however, is that this is Hilda's Tower, where the ethereal heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Marble Faun lived while she studied painting in Rome.

  • The largest of these quarries is near Estremoz, a walled town full of gleaming white marble stretching above the plains.

  • The hall where the city council now meets adjoins, and at the head of the black marble staircase is the Saló de les Cròniques (Hall of the Chronicles), noted for the modern murals in sepia tones by Josep Maria Sert.


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