Example sentences for: triumphal

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

  • The most absorbing sections chart the struggle to power with a variety of illustrations: countless maps, evocative photos of both torture victims and triumphal scenes, and assorted personal memorabilia from passports to bloodstained clothes.

  • The 27 b.c. triumphal arch (Arco d’Augusto), anachronistically ornamented with medieval battlements, stands at the junction of the imperial highways from ancient Rome: Via Flaminia and Via Emilia (which gave the region its name).

  • More than any of the empire’s colossal arenas, soaring aqueducts, or triumphal arches, you’ll find the everyday reality of Roman life in the bakeries, wine shops, groceries, and brothels of Pompeii, a town of about 25,000 founded before the 6th century b.c.

  • It is in fact a triumphal arch and palace façade (to the old Palazzo Poli) framing mythic creatures in a riot of rocks and pools, with a rearing horse symbolizing the ocean’s turmoil and a calmer steed its tranquility.

  • Perugia’s antiquity is symbolized on the north side of town by the lovingly preserved Arco Etrusco (Etruscan — and partly Roman —  triumphal arch) that was incorporated into its medieval ramparts.


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