Example sentences for: originally

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

  • Strolling past the mosque leads to the inner harbor, with the remains of large Venetian arsenali (ship repair yards) — originally 17 lined the water’s edge.

  • The name Colosseum , now usually taken to refer to its size, originally referred to the fact that the amphitheater was built adjacent to a huge statue (a colossus ) of the sun god that had been commissioned by Nero, allegedly in his own likeness.

  • Bragg, a writerish reporter who would be at home in Style, earned in the June 9 Times . The jailed sheriff spent 27 months behind bars, not 27 years, as Bragg originally reported.

  • Calluna , although many variant garden forms are known, consists of only the one species, Calluna vulgaris . Erica (the name Linnaeus gave originally to both heath and heather), however, comprises several hundred species, nearly all found in the Cape of South Africa, with fewer than a dozen found in the rest of the world.

  • One of Acapulco’s historic landmarks is the Fuerte de San Diego, originally built in 1616 to protect against pirate attacks, and later renovated following extensive earthquake damage in 1776.


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