Example sentences for: pavilions

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

  • The newfangled monorail that ferried visitors from Seattle's dowdy downtown to the fair's gleaming pavilions owed more to Disneyland of the 1950s than it did to the future.

  • The main strolling area is along the north shore of Kunming Lake, where the pavilions and courtyards are linked by the Long Corridor (Chang Lang).

  • Prince Gong, brother to an emperor and father of China’s last emperor, Puyi, occupied this estate in the mid-19th century, making use of its 31 halls and pavilions as his private residence.

  • This sprawling compound of courtyards and showy 19th-century pavilions is decorated in a pantheon of finely carved friezes, gates, and gold-leaf tableaux depicting scenes of Chinese myth and romance.

  • The monumental baths, separate Latin and Greek libraries, Greek theater, temples, and pavilions together make up the home of a man who drew no distinction between the pleasures of mind and body.


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