Example sentences for: renaissance

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

  • Because these tales were not—as far as we know—collected in the Renaissance and because, like ballads and songs, they must have been subject to endless variation and mutual interference, we cannot now know the Pedro de Urdemalas who endeared himself to the folk” (218).

  • Even if you cannot afford the often prohibitive prices, they’re worth visiting as veritable little museums of Renaissance and Baroque sculpture and furniture.

  • Shakespeare was gaudily invoked a few days later by a French couple doing "Romeo and Juliet" in matching bright blue, bejeweled Renaissance outfits.

  • 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.

  • Since the Renaissance, science has outstripped faith, and Templeton views this as a great tragedy.


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