Example sentences for: simeon

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

  • On the west bank of the river — set in a desert landscape — is the seventh-century Coptic monastery of St. Simeon now sadly in ruins, and the Mausoleum of the Aga Khan (1877–1957), spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslim sect.

  • It is undoubtedly a serious art collection, but its setting — in a vast replica of a palatial Roman villa — has something of the pretentious inclinations of San Simeon, without Hearst’s pick-and-mix flamboyance.

  • Beyond San Simeon the rugged coastline begins to relent, and farms and oil rigs take the place of crags and canyons.

  • The rugged coast continues south for another 65 miles (105 km) along to San Simeon, where William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper magnate immortalized by Orson Welles in the film Citizen Kane, built his unbelievable dream castle on a hilltop high above the sea.

  • Hearst Castle now forms the centerpiece of the Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument, and is one of the most popular attractions in all California (guided tours only).


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