Example sentences for: moorish-style

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

  • The city’s most interesting sight is the Convento de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, with its fine Manueline carving, bright Moorish-style azulejos, splendid Baroque chapel, and an explosion of rococo gold leaf.

  • Igreja Matriz, the parish church, dates to 1430 but was rebuilt in 1639: It features a handsome Moorish-style ceiling.

  • This would be a fairly obvious thought to have if you saw the movie, as I did, in the eastern Catskills, a few miles away from the outlandish Moorish-style mansion, called Olana, built by the richest and most famous (in his day) of the Hudson River School of painters, Frederick Edwin Church (1826-1900).

  • A little farther on lies the Casa de los Árabes (Calle Oficios, 12), a Moorish-style 17th-century building that now comprises a bazaar piled high with carpets, robes, and pottery; Havana’s only place of worship for Muslims; and a lovely restaurant tucked away in the courtyard.


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