Example sentences for: venetians

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

  • Over the next century, the Venetians greatly strengthened the fortifications, but Chaniá and Réthymnon fell in 1645.

  • The Venetians fortified their main towns — Naxos Town and Antiparos Town are wonderful examples of this — creating labyrinths of narrow alleys and cul-de-sacs that were designed to confuse and to demoralize invaders.

  • The Venetians took his remains to Venice when they fled the island and the church was rebuilt as a mosque after an earthquake in 1856, giving the incongruous but beautiful decoration on the outer walls.

  • The Venetians restored their republic, a Piedmontese army joined up with troops from Tuscany, the Papal States, and Naples, and a new democratic Roman Republic was proclaimed.

  • The Minoan settlement of Petrás lies 1 km (.66 miles) to the east and it was the Venetians who made their town on this hillside location, building a fortress — the Kamárza — on its highest point.


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