Example sentences for: victorian

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

  • First, Virginia's mysterious and saintly mother broke under the strain of Victorian women's work--nursing invalids, running a staff of servants--though the immediate cause of death was rheumatic fever.

  • The Long Hall (South Great George’s Street) is a Victorian time machine with (reputedly) the city’s longest bar counter.

  • The strip which is lined with elms and runs down the spine of Commonwealth Avenue is the perfect vantage point on which to stand back and gaze at the ornate Victorian buildings built in a range of styles — French Second Empire, Victorian Gothic, and Renaissance Revival.

  • Growing up in her father's shadow, Woolf felt perfectly comfortable writing like a smug Victorian patriarch.

  • Try to be here for an utterly Victorian open-air band concert.


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