Example sentences for: turrets

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

  • Built onto the castle walls, at first glance this picture-book array of turrets, terraces, and arches could easily pass for authentic medieval fortifications, but they are in fact too good to be true, constructed around the turn of this century as pure ornamentation.

  • Its battlements and turrets are all a self-respecting financier like Henry Pellatt could have wished for.

  • As Japan’s only surviving castle preserved in its original form, Himeji Castle has opulent white walls and myriad turrets.

  • All that remains of the castle are the bases of four huge turrets (12th–13th century) and some excavations.

  • The neo-Romanesque arched entrance recalls the British capital’s Natural Science Museum, and the smaller-domed turrets suggest something between an Englishman’s castle and his county council.


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