Example sentences for: palais

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

  • The Grand Palais shares its colossal building with the Palais de la Découverte (see page 75), and includes among its displays a hands-on exhibition of the sciences, with a planetarium as centerpiece.

  • The gardens’ 28 hectares (11 acres) extend across the site of the royal Palais des Tuileries, burnt down during the 1871 Commune (see page 21).

  • At the north end of the gardens, the Palais du Luxembourg, built for Marie de’Medici early in the 17th century, now houses the French Senate.

  • Both were constructed for the Universal Exhibition of 1900 and are today used for a variety of exhibitions, though the Petit Palais houses several permanent collections of 19th-century French paintings.

  • These days, they find room for their papers in the Palais de Justice and the nearby Préfecture de Police, haunt of those fictional detectives, Inspectors Maigret and Clouseau.


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