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Example sentences for "still preserved"

  • After execution her corpse was thrust into a hackney-coach and driven to Surgeons' Hall for dissection; the skeleton is still preserved in a London collection.

  • The inventory of the goods of Bishop Richard de Gravesend, Bishop of London for twenty-five years of this reign, is still preserved in the archives of St. Paul's.

  • The gilding also is still preserved in the ruins of Persepolis.

  • The monument is still preserved, but one half of the chapel was obliterated in 1829.

  • At his death he bequeathed to it his library, which is still preserved.

  • The transepts have suffered by the fall of the tower, but fortunately the south wall of the transept with its finely decorated window is still preserved.

  • In the south wall of the portion first discovered (one half of the total area) a door, the cill of which is still preserved, led to an oratory.

  • The whole surface was covered with mosaic, of which a great deal is still preserved, consisting of geometrical pattern work for the most part, without inscriptions, though there is one panel showing a vase with scrolls issuing from it.

  • The Register of the Parish, which is still preserved, commences in 1560.

  • A plan of the house is still preserved in the Soane Museum.

  • The elevation of Inigo's plan for the Fields, painted in oil colours, is still preserved at Wilton House, near Salisbury.

  • More's skull is still preserved, it is said, in the vault of St. Dunstan's Church at Canterbury.

  • In memory of this visit the emperor's portrait was introduced in the beautiful miniatures which illustrate Maximilian Sforza's Book of Prayers, or Libro di Gesù, still preserved in the Trivulzian Library.

  • The curious little fire-engine upon which the town used to rely is still preserved in a shed in Willowgate.

  • It is an old custom that is still preserved to ring the biggest, or the "pancake" bell, as it is often called, at eleven in the morning on Shrove Tuesday.

  • There is still preserved in Pickering one of the parchments on which were enrolled the names of all those who were liable for service in the militia.

  • The miraculous corporal stained with blood is still preserved at Orvieto, the celebrated cathedral of which owes its foundation to the miracle.

  • Constantina, daughter of Constantine, whose tomb is still preserved at Rome, begged of Eusebius bishop of Cesarea a likeness of our Divine Saviour (Concil.

  • This poem is of so violent a nature that the Council suppressed it, but a copy is still preserved in the library.

  • We may conjecture that the church was originally a basilica with a Romanesque east choir, flanked by two small adjoining aisles, corresponding to the west choir which is still preserved, and with a nave in the shape of a cross.

  • The autograph notes of his sermons, still preserved in his cell at San Marco, show this abundantly.

  • There is reason to believe that the artist once intended to have introduced the ceremony of a marriage contract, instead of the levee, as an unfinished painting of the scene is still preserved.

  • The mural monument of the Taylors, composed of lead gilt over, is still preserved: it is seen in Hogarth's print, just under the window.

  • For the benefit of the poor members of the Goldsmiths' Company, he left a share in his New River water; and his portrait is still preserved in their hall.

  • Mr. Gheys, Sculptor, was ordered to have the Skeleton, in exchange for the Bust of Inigo Jones, still preserved at the Hall.

  • This year (6th January) the Company obtained an Inspeximus Charter from Elizabeth, still preserved at the Hall; it has a title in much the same style as the preceding charter, but the seal is very much damaged.

  • As a description of these four closes of land is still preserved in the Harleian M.

  • There is still preserved in the Record Office, Carlton Ride, {47a} a manuscript record which shews that Henry Rede held the manor of Paddington in the ninth year of Elizabeth’s reign.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "still preserved" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    last moments; more will; not understand; still alive; still another; still existing; still future; still going; still here; still holds; still keeping; still larger; still less; still lives; still observed; still remains; still retained; still seen; still smaller; still smiling; still tongue; still very; still water; summer rain; taken collectively; this vessel