Example sentences for: venetian

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

  • This decent elegant fellow human beingWas seated in virtue, character, disability,Behind her the order of the ranged bookshelves,The windows monitored by Venetian blinds--"These can be raised or lowered; numerous slats,Horizontally arranged, and parallel,Which can be tilted so as to admitPrecisely the desired light or air."

  • Though Western Europe’s leaders watched with baited breath, they sent little support, and inexorably Venetian resistance was worn away.

  • Walking right from the museum and right again along the waterfront brings you to the enchanting Venetian inner harbor, now a haven for small fishing craft and tour boats.

  • The Portuguese thus ended the Venetian monopoly on Eastern trade and began attracting merchants from all over Europe to Lisbon.

  • First stop, off a side road to Fusina, is Palladio’s La Malcontenta (1571), to which a too-flighty Venetian countess was sent to pine, malcontentedly, in exquisite isolation on the canal.


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