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Example sentences for "velarium"

Lexicographically close words:
veins; veinte; veiny; vel; velar; veld; veldt; vele; velim; velin
  1. A velarium was made and put up, and they proceeded to get rid of their President.

  2. The President made a speech, in which he claimed that his action in the matter of the velarium was not inimical to the welfare of the Society, but the speech was not recorded.

  3. Where is the huge velarium that Nero stretched across the Colosseum at Rome, on which was represented the starry sky, and Apollo driving a chariot drawn by steeds?

  4. Where the huge velarium that Nero had stretched across the Colosseum at Rome, on which were represented the starry sky, and Apollo driving a chariot drawn by white gilt-reined steeds?

  5. Was the velarium on fire; had the machinery for lighting up refused to work; and must they remain in this uncomfortable twilight?

  6. But the mist had already gradually vanished, and those who gazed upward could see that the velarium with the sun and stars had made way for a black surface.

  7. Not a sound was to be heard but the long-drawn howling of the wind, and now and then the flap of a strip of cloth torn from the velarium by the gale.

  8. Then he perceived that it came in through the black velarium with which they had closed the open roof of the room through which he was passing.

  9. But little by little, increasing luxury reduced the Puritans of Rome to silence, and they willingly accepted a velarium of silk--an homage of Cæsar.

  10. This velarium was an awning that was stretched above the heads of the spectators to protect them from the sun.

  11. Nero, who carried everything to excess, went further: he caused a velarium of purple to be embroidered with gold.

  12. At that same moment a resonant manly voice high up under the velarium exclaimed,-- "Peace to the martyrs!

  13. The censers were ignited again, and the velarium was removed, for the sun had sunk now considerably.

  14. He raised his eyes then to the opening of the amphitheatre, over which night had begun to extend its velarium dotted with stars.

  15. A gigantic purple velarium gave shelter from the rays of the sun.

  16. The use of /the private Sunshade for each person/ established itself by degrees on those days when, on account of the wind, the Velarium could not be used.

  17. According to Pliny and Valerius Maximus, it is from Campania that the Velarium comes, which is destined to defend the spectators from the sun.


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