Example sentences for: tile

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

  • A prized possession is the Lisbon Panorama, a 36 m- (118 ft-) long tile composition of Lisbon’s riverside as it looked before the 1755 earthquake.

  • Take the long tunnel from the wine cellar to the stables, where the horses were spoiled silly with a home of Spanish tile and mahogany.

  • A Renaissance portal, a distinguished later addition, opens onto spacious courtyards where horseshoe arches, Arabic inscriptions, and distinctive tile ornaments indicate the Moorish origins of this grand building.

  • Casa Batlló’s façade is covered with the bits of broken plate and tile, a decorative technique called trencadis that Gaudí repeatedly employed.

  • The brick exterior, with Moorish arches and columns inlaid with floral tile designs, is sober compared to what’s inside.


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