How To Use Colosseum In A Sentence

  • I'd struggled in Colosseum crowds in the blistering heat. Times, Sunday Times
  • Arunga Park is our outback colosseum, and it is here that boys with their toys gather to race to the death (of the vehicle), after months of rebuilding their stock cars from scratch.
  • The lion with a thorn in his paw, guy saves him, later guy is in the Colosseum, lion decides not to eat him. THE BLACK BOOK: DIARY OF A TEENAGE STUD VOL. III: RUN, JONAH, RUN
  • The lion with a thorn in his paw, guy saves him, later guy is in the Colosseum, lion decides not to eat him. THE BLACK BOOK: DIARY OF A TEENAGE STUD VOL. III: RUN, JONAH, RUN
  • The Colosseum was the greatest building in Ancient Rome but much smaller amphitheatres were built in Roman Britain and gladiatorial fights may have occurred in these.
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  • A century ago, the Brunswick Street oval was a suburban colosseum.
  • The Colosseum was the greatest building in Ancient Rome but much smaller amphitheatres were built in Roman Britain and gladiatorial fights may have occurred in these.
  • The computer-generated parts of the building, particularly the velarium (the canvas roof used to shade the arena's spectators from the sun), did not produce optimal lighting effects within the Colosseum set. Sandals, Sweat, and Swords
  • And she draws a couple of intriguing parallels: for instance, between Robert Mapplethorpe and the Armenian-Egyptian studio photographer Van Leo (both playing sensitive tough guys), or between the Italian Paolo Canevari (brandishing a model of the Colosseum) and the Egyptian Youssef Nafil (gazing at the Pyramids). NYT > Home Page
  • Each year millions of tourists visit Italy to see the country's cultural and historical landmarks such as the Colosseum in Rome and the Greek ruins in Sicily.
  • I'd struggled in Colosseum crowds in the blistering heat. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even in ruin the Colosseum is a magnificent edifice of great structural interest and aesthetic splendour.
  • The architecture is stunning - the library, designed by Moshe Safdie, is modelled on a Roman colosseum.
  • The cake looked like the Colosseum on a marble plinth. Times, Sunday Times
  • The two gladiators of Italian politics have entered the colosseum.
  • The Real Spartacus takes us inside the colosseums of ancient Rome and into the lives of its gladiators - considered the lowest forms of life at the time.
  • Farther down was the now completed Colosseum, around which other thousands stood watching the pigmies who, in dark clusters upon the top and along the edge, laboriously erected the poles upon which, in case of need, to stretch the protecting velarium. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
  • With its grid-pattern streets, one of France's best preserved colosseums, an amphitheatre and underground crypts much of this town has escaped the influence of the 20th century.
  • Right in the middle, covering the short spiny grass, was a huge, brilliantly white Colosseum that had seen better days, but still stood sturdy and still.
  • There is no better view of the Colosseum than the circular dolly shot, as you lean into the curve with the throttle open.
  • Shot on location in Malta and Morocco, Scott even went so far as to build a full-scale replica of the Roman colosseum and a gladiator ‘training area’ - complete with ferocious wild cats.
  • This is not a commercial activity," Mr. Della Valle insisted at a Rome press conference, rejecting what he called erroneous reports that Tod's would benefit commercially from exclusive use of the Colosseum image for his company's merchandise. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • The Romans had the biggest and the grandest gladiator fights in the colosseums where one always beat the best.
  • Emperor of Rome(69-79) who brought prosperity to the empire, reformed the army, was a patron of the arts, and began the building of the Colosseum.
  • I'd struggled in Colosseum crowds in the blistering heat. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even in ruin the Colosseum is a magnificent edifice of great structural interest and aesthetic splendour.
  • The Wigwam Resort is turning its ballroom into a football stadium with a huge rear-projection screen flanked by Roman Colosseum-like pillars.
  • Where the huge velarium that Nero had stretched across the Colosseum at Rome, that Titan sail of purple on which was represented the starry sky, and Apollo driving a chariot drawn by white, gilt-reined steeds? The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Even in ruin the Colosseum is a magnificent edifice of great structural interest and aesthetic splendour.
  • But I imagine the news that the Roman Colosseum appears to have been constructed from loot from the sack of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem might be worth an extra chapter or two?
  • My impression of it was quite vivid enough without that, and the vision of the Colosseum remained, and still remains, the immense skeleton of the stupendous form stripped of all integumental charm and broken down half one side of its vast oval, so that wellnigh a quarter of the structural bones are gone. Roman Holidays, and Others
  • And in Rome, as thousands of tourists watch helplessly, an electrical superstorm reduces the ancient Roman Colosseum to rubble.
  • So he has no plans to plaster the Colosseum with advertisements for his goods? Times, Sunday Times
  • The most famous is probably the Colosseum where thousands of Roman citizens would gather for their entertainment - be it animals fighting or gladiators etc.
  • Knitting together and extending interior and exterior circulation paths on campus, it functions not only as colosseum, but also as agora - a place of informal social exchange.
  • The colosseum opened in A.D.80 and hosted 100 spectacles a year. 50,000 available seats were divided into social classes.
  • Leaving the theater, we see around the Colosseum street artists disguised as gladiators and centurions to entertain tourists…
  • Standing as an icon for both ancient Rome and modern Italy, the Colosseum is the largest Roman building ever built.
  • On the day of competition, semi trailers rolled through the Anzac Oval gates, and in a matter of hours, television standard lighting was erected and an electronic scoreboard mounted, converting the paddock into a spectacular colosseum.
  • With its grid-pattern streets, one of France's best preserved colosseums, an amphitheatre and underground crypts much of this town has escaped the influence of the 20th century.
  • It was in this awed state that we very nearly bypassed the very pinnacle of ancient Roman architecture: The Colosseum.
  • The Melbourne Cricket Ground, a contemporary colosseum, growls and echoes eerily as Waugh makes the long walk to the crease.

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