Example sentences for: renaissance

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

  • Because of its dramatic location and the fairytale turrets of its Gothic-Renaissance architecture, the Frontenac is one of the most charmingly bombastic of all the many grand hotels that the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways put up across the country as symbols of their commercial power.

  • Their idols were the Pre-Raphaelite ideologues John Ruskin and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, whose passion for medieval Italian art before the individualizing tendencies of the Renaissance (hence "pre-Raphael") they shared.

  • Much of Naples’ middle class looks out over the city from the hilltop Vomero neighborhood in geometrically laid out, treeshaded streets respectably named after artists and musicians of the Renaissance and Baroque periods: Michelangelo, Giordano, Scarlatti, and Cimarosa.

  • You could argue, in fact, that the renaissance American movies experienced in the early 1970s was only possible because of these new arrangements.

  • His successors built a power base at Thebes, and started a cultural renaissance with wide-reaching effects on Egyptian art and archaeology.


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