Example sentences for: marbles

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • A cardboard divider, no different from what's normally used to ship grapefruit, keeps the skulls from banging together like marbles.

  • As far as I am concerned, Mr. Day's article is a load of marbles (=marble balls=balls) !


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