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.

  • Con­stantine added new city walls, following a plan he claimed to have been given by Christ in a vision, and commissioned a grand central forum decorated with a triumphal column as well as several other monuments.

  • Forming part of the city wall, the gate was intended by the more pragmatic Prussians not so much as a triumphal arch as an imposing tollgate for collecting duties.

  • At the top of the steps is the two-story Yomeimon, the “Gate of Sunlight” — the triumphal masterpiece of Toshogu, rightly declared a National Treasure.

  • The Royal architects Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker created a monumental New Delhi with triumphal arches, palaces, gigantic government buildings, and sweeping avenues radiating from circles (for easy riot control) — the stuff of an empire meant to last forever.


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