Example sentences for: turin

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

  • The other big story in Italy was the visit of President Mohammed Khatami of Iran, the first by an Iranian leader to the West since 1979, which was soured by the coincidental, simultaneous presence in the country of Salman Rushdie, the British writer condemned to death 10 years ago by Ayatollah Khomeini for allegedly blaspheming against the Muslim religion in his book The Satanic Verses . While Khatami was in Rome, Rushdie was in Turin receiving an honorary degree from the university there, to the embarrassment and anger of the Italian government, which had not been informed.

  • La Stampa of Turin, however, supported the idea of airstrikes against Serbia as "a symbolic act" against Milosevic's intransigence.

  • The classical palaces and squares of Turin, Piedmont’s royal capital, are in many ways closer in spirit to France than the rest of Italy.

  • Turin (Torino)

  • Sometimes enshrined in the Chapel of the Holy Shroud (Cappella della Santa Sindone), it was brought to Turin in the 17th century after a journey 200 years earlier from Jerusalem to France via Cyprus.


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