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Example sentences for "togas"

Lexicographically close words:
toffs; toffy; tofore; tog; toga; togeather; togedder; togeder; together; togged
  1. Between them were vacant seats of senators unable to attend, and over the concentric rows of marble chairs the white togas spread out like newly fallen snow upon a crust of ice.

  2. Senators who owned extensive territories and hundreds of slaves, paraded their togas covered with patches in civic pride through the Forum.

  3. He first exhibited the togas which he had hired for us to wear; we, as fugitives, having, of course, no togas of our own.

  4. He and they wore their togas with all the awkwardness to be expected from men who donned togas only for Circus games and Amphitheatre shows.

  5. Preparations for defence were hastily made: an improvised body-guard was formed; togas were girt up, and the staves of the lictors were broken into fragments to serve as clubs.

  6. He was followed by a crowd of senators, all wrapping the folds of their togas round their left arms.

  7. At length the conclave broke up, and drawing their togas around them, the pontiffs retired.

  8. I spend half my days teaching clodhoppers how to fold hired togas properly behind the neck.

  9. There sat greybeards, men, and boys, and a couple of lamas in their red togas had joined the party of laymen.

  10. Then three lamas in red togas and yellow skull-caps walked slowly over the quadrangle with shrill cries and singular gestures, took off their caps and put them on again with mystical movements.

  11. For very cold weather both men and women were provided with togas for their protection.

  12. The lower seats, crowded with togas were as white as snow.

  13. They all sported ample togas of white wool broadly bordered with purple.

  14. On the divan here and there togas and lacernae lie where they have been carelessly tossed, some of them significantly bordered with purple.

  15. Meanwhile, with Lentulus and Cassius, the clients of your houses being armed beneath their togas with swords and breast-plates, and casques ready to be donned, I will make sure of Cicero and the rest.

  16. Probably the stripes worn by the knights and senators on the tunics and togas were much nearer our crimson than purple.

  17. Antonius and his companions tossed off their cumbrous togas and put on the dark, coarse cloaks and slippers which were worn by slaves and people of the lower classes.

  18. Fluttering in their broad togas about the senate-house were Domitius, Cato, the Marcelli, and Scipio, busy whipping into line the few remaining waverers.

  19. There they sat, even in the midst of the general excitement, a body of calm, dignified elders, severe and immaculate in their long white togas and purple-edged tunics.

  20. Purple was the favorite color for this velamen, or veil; because, when the sun shone through it, it cast such beautiful rosy tints on the snowy arena and the white purple-edged togas of the Roman citizens.

  21. Perhaps three-fourths of the distance had been covered at the expense of torn togas and bruised sides, when a sudden commotion in front showed that something was happening.


  22. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "togas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.