Example sentences for: roman

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

  • Soon after his arrival in Spain, the young man inherited the title of Holy Roman Emperor, as Charles V. The responsibilities of the crown kept him busy away from the royal residences of Toledo, Segovia, Valladolid, and Madrid.

  • The rationale behind referring to them as “lost” arises from the author's observation of an unfortunate state of affairs: because of an increasingly widespread lack of familiarity with the basic, structural elements of our culture—Greek and Roman mythology, the Bible, literature, and ordinary historical fact—people today are unable to discern the origins of terms like aphrodisiac, Achilles [sic] heel or tendon, meet one's Waterloo, sow dragon's teeth , and hand-writing on the wall , to name a few.

  • The policy of the Roman Catholic Church is that except in extreme circumstances, only Catholics (and sometimes Eastern Orthodox Christians) are invited to consume the consecrated bread and wine at a Catholic Mass.

  • Many other remains date from the Roman era, including ornate entrances round the Fountain of Peirene where you can still hear the waters flowing through caves at the rear, and the Lechaion Road that linked the city to Athens — with worn cart tracks clearly visible in the marble slabs.

  • The Hasmoneans ruled until Pompey’s Roman legions arrived in 63 b.c.


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