Example sentences for: marbles

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

  • The Guardian of London fronted a report Monday that British Prime Minister Tony Blair has "categorically ruled" that the 2,500-year-old sculptures from the frieze of the Parthenon in Athens--known in Britain as the "Elgin Marbles"--should not be returned to Greece.

  • The Princes’ Chapel (Cappella dei Principi) is a piece of 17th-century Baroque bombast in flamboyant multi-colored marbles, for which the altar was not completed, appropriately enough, until 1939.

  • The dolls, she said, were America's Elgin marbles, a cultural treasure stolen from overseas.

  • Greece wants to house the marbles in a new museum to be built under the Acropolis.

  • Subsequent “licences” granted by the Ottomans to European nobles saw many prize friezes disappear to archaeological collections around Europe, including the Elgin marbles (ornately carved pediments) that were taken to London by Lord Elgin.


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