Example sentences for: toledo

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

  • Leading north from the palace, the Neapolitans’ favorite shopping street of Via Toledo separates the town hall (Municipio) and the broad commercial streets going down to the harbor from a checkerboard of narrow alleys to the west, a Spanish neighborhood of the 16th century that is now a mass of dilapidated working-class housing and a great opportunity for watching everyday-life.

  • --Cynthia Comeau in Toledo

  • Felipe moved the royal court from Toledo to Madrid in 1561, converting an unimpressive town of less than 15,000 people into the capital of the world’s greatest empire.

  • La Rambla itself relies on a heavy tourist trade in trinkets, such as bullfight posters plastered with your name as the featured matador, leather (or plastic) wineskins called botas, and their glass relative, the porrón; imitation Toledo steel with the engraving painted on; imitation dueling pistols; and tawdry sex-shop toys.

  • His son Philip II moved the capital of the great Spanish empire from Toledo to previously insignificant Madrid.


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