Example sentences for: palatial

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

  • Several palatial chambers and corridors in the 18 th century Hôtel Crillon were given over to the operation; they were packed with rows of golden chairs leaving a serpentine passage for the parade, and surrounded by banks of lights and ranks of camerapeople.

  • The Carriage Museum (Museo delle Carrozze), in a wing on the far right of the palace, and the Royal Apartments (Appartamenti Monumentali), upstairs, right of the main entrance, show an opulent, truly palatial life that the palazzo’s dour exterior never lets you suspect.

  • The adjacent Palatine Hill, which was eventually reserved for imperial structures (whence our words palace and palatial ), was derived from the name of Pallas , son of Evander, a Greek who according to epic tradition settled on the site of Rome centuries before its “real” founding.

  • Begun in the mid-18th century, in palatial terms, it’s rather small, abandoned and visibly dilapidated, and only the gardens are open to the public.

  • The first palatial structures at Knossós, and other great cities such as Phaistós and Mália, were erected around 2000 b.c., but these were destroyed by an earthquake 300 years later.


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