Example sentences for: nave

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

  • The minaret was converted into a bell tower, and a Gothic nave was tacked on to the original structure, followed by a high altar in ornate 16th-century Plateresque style, and some finely carved Baroque choir stalls.

  • Among the best are the 12th-century Pentecost dome in the nave and the central dome’s 13th-century Ascension.

  • Inside, left of the Baroque nave, go down to Naples’ earliest known Christian sanctuary, the fourth-century Ba­si­li­ca of Santa Restituta, in which the original Roman columns survived the 1688 earthquake.

  • Following a common seaport custom, the white clapboard village church, with its nave shaped like an upturned ship, was designed and built by local shipwrights.

  • From 1506 to 1626, it changed from the simple ground plan of a Greek cross, with four arms of equal length, as favored by Bramante and his arch-enemy Michelangelo, to the final form of Maderno’s Latin cross extended by a long nave, as demanded by the popes of the Counter-Reformation.


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