Example sentences for: travertine

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

  • In a rare opportunity for concentrated effort by one man on such a gigantic project, Bernini completed the 284 travertine columns, 88 pilasters, and 140 statues of the saints in just 11 years, from 1656 to 1667.

  • The most important are clustered around three adjoining squares: the triangular Piazza della Cisterna named after the city’s 13th-century travertine well, surrounded by elegant palaces; the Piazza del Duomo, grouping church and town hall as the center of civic and religious power; and the Piazza delle Erbe ­market place with twin Salvucci towers.

  • The pleasant daze induced on the three-tiered travertine staircase, festooned in spring with pink azaleas, was celebrated by John Keats as a “blissful cloud of summer indolence” before he died here in 1821.

  • For their churches and private palaces, popes and princes have stripped the Colosseum of its precious marble, travertine, and metal.


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