Example sentences for: venerable

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

  • Pass through it into the ceremonial forecourt of the Patio de los Naranjos, with its fountains and venerable orange trees, to reach the entrance to the mosque.

  • The life of a periodical is quite unpredictable; periodicals change or remain the same, but people are more likely to change than remain the same, with the consequent disappearance of venerable publications like Punch , for example.

  • Directly across the Rambla is the venerable Café de l’Opera, a handsome old-world café that’s always bursting with boisterous patrons.

  • Wangfujing, running north a few blocks east of the Forbidden City, is the capital’s primary shopping street, lined with upscale boutiques and glittering shopping plazas, although a few venerable arts and crafts shops, small galleries, and old department stores still survive.

  • The town’s most venerable edifice is the 12th-century Romanesque basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.


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