Example sentences for: martini

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

  • The worldwide symbol for "cocktail lounge" is a martini glass with olive, even though martinis themselves are a relatively uncommon sight these days.

  • While Florentine art developed its formidable intellectual and emotional power, the tone of Sienese painting — Simone Martini, the Lorenzettis, even the Mannerist Sodoma — remained gentle and delicate, bathed in the light and color of its surrounding countryside.

  • First, there are the standards , like the Martini and the Screwdriver and the Bloody Mary . These are to bartender what White Christmas and My Way are to a lounge singer.

  • The Sala del Mappamondo (named after a lost map of the Sienese world painted by Ambrogio Lorenzetti to trace the city’s international banking interests) has two great frescoes by the Siena-born master Simone Martini.

  • Among the most important works from the 14th to the 18th centuries are Simone Martini’s St. Catherine of Alexandria, Cranach’s Venus, Hans Baldung Grien’s Eve, the Serpent and Death, Hans Memling’s Virgin, Christ and St. Anthony, Bronzino’s Portrait of a Man, Annibale Carracci’s Vision of St. Francis, Poussin’s Landscape with a Woman Washing Her Feet, Rubens’ Entombment of Christ, Rembrandt’s Heroine from the Old Testament, and Chardin’s The Governess.


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