Example sentences for: rialto

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

  • The shopping street of Mercerie has good quality boutiques growing progressively moderate in price as they approach the Rialto from the Piazza San Marco; so does the area west of the Piazza San Marco.

  • Hidden amongst it is the little 11th-century church of San Giacomo di Rialto — San Giacometto to them — claimed by locals to be the town’s oldest.

  • The 16th-century Rialto Bridge is one of Venice’s architectural icons, designed by ­Antonio da Ponte for a competition entered by Michelangelo, Palladio, and Sansovino — it’s still one of the liveliest spots in town.

  • On January 12th, 1989, Carole Leonard, who compiles a chatty column for The Times of items picked up on the Rialto in The City, reported that a “reader in Surrey” (not, for a change, “Disgusted,” Tunbridge Wells) received a tax form with the instruction “Send the cheque and payslip unfolded to the Collector in the envelope provided,” “I looked inside,” wrote the mystified reader, “but couldn't find him.”

  • For centuries, the clock tower has been every Venetians favorite rendezvous point, an arched ground-level entranceway leading to the Merceria, a narrow zig-zagging boutique-lined street that cuts through this ancient quarter on its way north to the Rialto Bridge.


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