Example sentences for: palaces

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

  • The collection covers finds from the Neolithic age onward and concentrates on Minoan finds in the ‘lesser’ (if one can use such a phrase for finds of this quality) sites, as there are no major palaces in the area.

  • About 46 km (28 miles) northeast of Évora, marble supplants more mundane building materials for churches and palaces, thanks to the great number of quarries found at Estremoz, Borba, and Vila Viçosa.

  • The whole Yucatán peninsula witnessed the flowering of classic Mayan civilization and a society of great sophistication; with its magnificent pyramids, temples, and palaces decorated with wall paintings and carved low-reliefs, a written language of hieroglyphics, and complicated medical procedures to heal the injured or the sick.

  • In churches and palaces around his native Venice, and then, as his fame spread, as far afield as Dresden and Madrid, Tiepolo was without peer in executing the tricks that make for a believable scene in the heavens: the figures foreshortened as if seen from below, the sturdy cloudbanks, the shades of pink and blue that draw the eye toward the infinite.

  • "We will have to strike his [Saddam's] 'palaces,' military installations, and also civilian infrastructures, from bridges to power stations," he was quoted as saying.


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