How To Use Hippodrome In A Sentence
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About two miles away and once connected by an ancient colonnaded paved road is the largest existing Roman hippodrome found in the world.
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Through a temple the walkway led to a vast hippodrome.
A Privilege to Die
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It reminded one of the tank of the New York Hippodrome, when the long lines of stage soldiers march down into the water, knee-high, hip-high, shoulder-high, then heads under and are gone.
Mexico's Army and Ours
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Judging by the well-preserved remains it has been inferred that within the acropolis there had been the temple of god Apollo and Dionysous as well as the hippodrome.
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Read it properly to revel (or reveal for the slow of speech) in its secrets and secrete properly your resigns on the public amphitheater floor, run in the hippodrome your best horses and sail your vessels (vassals?) under the loving eye of the goddess.
A Mess
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Their heroes fight, after preliminary parley which would do credit to the chivalry of the Hippodrome; and their lances invariably splinter as frush as the texture of the bullrush.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
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The most popular entertainments were the theater, frequently denounced by the clergy for nudity and immorality, and the races at the hippodrome.
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Standing, as it were, historically between Mycenae and Athens, and artistically between temple and hippodrome, the Theban Pindar in life was awarded the right to an equal share of first-fruit offer - ings by the Pythian priestess of Delphi, and after death, heroization, his ghost being invited annually to dine with Apollo (Gilbert Norwood, Pindar [1945]).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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In the Hippodrome, for example, statuary was marshaled to depict Constantinople as the New Rome.
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Horses were sometimes introduced, but then the hippodrome was the course.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859
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A hippodrome, with sun, moon, and stars to referee!
A RELIC OF THE PLIOCENE
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Their heroes fight, after preliminary parley which would do credit to the chivalry of the Hippodrome; and their lances invariably splinter as frush as the texture of the bullrush.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
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The Louisville Grays "hippodromed" the 1877 National League pennant and were tossed out of baseball.
Roger I. Abrams: To Err Is Human
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The Hippodrome structure consists of load-bearing exterior brick masonry walls with interior steel columns and beams.
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The adventurer, armed only with a hand-ax, trails the beast and traps it in a small valley like a hippodrome, perhaps five miles around, and runs the beast for two months, not allowing it to eat, drink or sleep, until it "fell to whimpering and crying like a baby.
“Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins.”
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The sun was setting in a wash of scarlet beyond the great hippodrome.
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No horse races took place at the Palermo hippodrome in the City of Buenos Aires on August 24 and 25.
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The team has already run an F1 car around the Circus Maximus in Rome, and the historic Sultanahmet hippodrome in Istanbul's city centre.
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Many of Herod's structures are well preserved - the palace, aqueduct, hippodrome, and the amphitheater.
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The historic heart of Istanbul will welcome a parade of historic racing cars on the route of the ancient hippodrome.
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Amongst them was a little exhibition of mineralogy and archaeology, maps and plans, sketches and croquis, at the Hippodrome.
The Land of Midian
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Chariot races staged in the hippodrome - always a crowd-pleaser - opened the games.
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We've studied the foundations of temples, hippodromes and harbours and our task was to rebuild them from the ruins using the latest technology.
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The piazza, a natural hippodrome of tall, stone buildings with the high peaks of the Abruzzi soaring up behind, has been laid with hundreds of tonnes of sand and planted with greenery to mark out a track round which 'cavaliere' -- the knights -- will race with lances raised at breakneck speeds.
News - chicagotribune.com
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Their chief companions, or rather, their most intimate friends, are the fellows who hang about livery stables, betting-rooms, race-courses, and hippodromes; crop-eared grooms,
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
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It's a view from the breakfast room of the Hotel Spectra, looking across the old Roman hippodrome to the Mosque of Sultanahmet, better known over here as the Blue Mosque.
Archive 2009-05-01
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That was the only time he penned me, -- three days of it, -- but after that the hippodrome never stopped.
A RELIC OF THE PLIOCENE
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At the hippodrome on the city's edge, thousands of cheering and whistling spectators watched about 50 riders, many in red-and-black traditional robes, compete furiously at buzkashi.
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In his gardens and chariot-racing center, called the hippodrome, almost a thousand people were brutally murdered.
Raw Story
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Part of it was thrown into the hippodrome of the town, together with the Chakraswamin, an idol of bronze brought from Thanesar.
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But as in the conflicts between Blue and Green factions of the Byzantine hippodrome, minor affective preferences can have major political consequences.
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Both these treaties are shown on the base of the obelisk of Theodosius, erected in the hippodrome at Constantinople in 390, as triumphs of Roman arms.
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All Ramadan action takes place around the Hippodrome, which becomes the arena of post-fasting entertainment until the wee hours of the morning.
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The Hippodrome should hum again with live entertainment.
Times, Sunday Times
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But Hezbollah fired so many volleys of rockets from the nearby orchards that it feared reprisal bombings against the crowd that would gather to bury the dead in the open field by the ancient hippodrome.
A Privilege to Die
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At the very last of his life, while he was at work on his "Spectatorus," which foreran the American idea of a Hippodrome, and which might have, in years to come, happily housed his son Percy's "Caliban," he was at the same time attempting to combine with it an educational aspect which would lift it above the mere spectacular.
Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Paul Kauvar; or, Anarchy
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This delightful anthology of prose and poetry, mostly homegrown but with contributions from Pliny on the magnificence of the box hedges cut into a thousand animal shapes in his Tuscan garden (with hippodrome), the 9th-century Frankish monk Strabo on the cultivation of dung heaps, and Thomas Jefferson on his ever-expanding vegetable patch, is the perfect companion for weeding, dead-heading, pricking out and mulching.
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