Example sentences for: venice

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

  • In churches and palaces around his native Venice, and then, as his fame spread, as far afield as Dresden and Madrid, Tiepolo was without peer in executing the tricks that make for a believable scene in the heavens: the figures foreshortened as if seen from below, the sturdy cloudbanks, the shades of pink and blue that draw the eye toward the infinite.

  • Throughout Italy’s history, its northeast regions have linked the country to the exotic outside world of Byzantium and the Orient through Venice and its Repubblica Serena, and to the Alpine countries north of the Dolomites, while the plains of Emilia-Romagna from Ravenna to Parma provided an anchor to the heartland of the Po valley.

  • July: Siena: first Palio (2 July, see page 105); Palermo: festival of patron Santa Rosalia; Venice: Redentore regatta; Rimini: Festival of the Sea; Rome: Noantri street-festival in Trastevere (see page 65)

  • Art --"Venice Biennale."

  • In short, the lakefront is one of the city's most defining, enviable, and enjoyable features-like what canals are to Venice or the beach is to Los Angeles.


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