Example sentences for: venetians

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

  • The Turks waged a titanic war to wrest the island from the Venetians.

  • 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 arrival of the Venetians changed the town’s fortune.

  • For centuries, the clock tower has been every Venetians favorite rendezvous point, an arched ground-level entranceway leading to the Merceria, a narrow zig-zagging boutique-lined street that cuts through this ancient quarter on its way north to the Rialto Bridge.

  • Felipe II took credit for a rousing naval victory at Lepanto, teaming with Venetians against the Turks, but less than two decades later Spain was subjected to the humiliating defeat of its “invincible” armada, at the hands of Sir Francis Drake and a small English navy.


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