colonnade

How To Use colonnade In A Sentence

• There's the Parthenon, built in 446 B.C., with its colonnade of Doric columns extending around the periphery of the entire structure.
• At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the building was extended by addition of east and west wings linked to the centre by colonnades tracing the path of the old road.
• The sight lines leading to the colonnade and entablature of the Parliament are left unobstructed.
• The vignette that shows no walls around the city, is characterized by a semicircular road that goes round a church very similar to a colonnaded exedra.
• A colonnade of massive stone pillars extended along the entire 462 feet of its front.
• Around this grand square with its central lake were arranged as follows: on the north side a superb colonnade of sculptured columns, forming the façade of the Temple of Mnevis, the sacred ox of On, at the gate or propyla of which crouched two sphinxes, with majestic human heads. The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage
• Greek houses included a walled court or garden usually surrounded by a colonnade.
• Buildings are clustered to encourage student/faculty dialogue and are intersected by quaint plazas, terraces, lavender gardens, and colonnades.
• Bramante's basilica, Michelangelo's dome, Bernini's colonnade. THE THORN BIRDS
• There's ornament in columns and cornices, rustication and pilasters, urns, anthemia, and pediments, with temples and colonnades high in the sky, topped by spires and finials.