coliseum

How To Use coliseum In A Sentence

• The National Football League and city of Los Angeles officials have reached a preliminary agreement on terms to bring a pro gridiron team back to the Los Angeles Coliseum.
• There are abandoned temples, coliseums, amphitheaters, ruins of old, ruined Greek-Roman fortresses - there are even alleyways of destroyed ancient cities.
• The space shuttle has a rough landing, a superstorm fries the Roman Coliseum, and the solar winds dismantle the Golden Gate Bridge.
• On a typical day when the Coliseum was playing to a full house, the place was crowded with men, women and children - yes, the Romans thought nothing wrong with exposing children to this kind of grotesquerie.
• ‘I wanted to get people's attention and fill up the coliseum,’ said Juan Mamani, 46, the president of the Titans and a wrestler himself.
• Wang and Islanders general manager Garth Snow said that the condition of the Coliseum and its surroundings—77 acres of weed patches; cracked, pot-holed concrete; and one hotel, the Long Island Marriott—have hampered the franchise's efforts to draw free agents and construct a competitive team. Islanders Try to Sell Voters on a New Arena
• She is tiny in stature, but is possessed of a ravishing soprano voice that rides the large orchestra, and fills the vast arena of the Coliseum with ease.
• The coliseum was a decent venue for concerts, especially because it was fairly small - fitting about 6,000 people at capacity - and had no pillars to block views of the stage. Corpus Christi Caller Times, Caller.com Stories
• Historians loudly condemn the royal and noble thieves who plundered the Coliseum and the Pantheon to build palaces, yet there are men in our times, who would, if they could, take Dr. Johnson's hint to pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and with it macadamize their roads; or fetch it away by piecemeal to build bridges with its stones, and saw up its marble monuments into chimneypieces. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832
• I thought it got bumped from the agenda for its second reading when the Memorial Coliseum issue flared up. Jack Bog's Blog: June 2009 Archives