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Colosseum

[ UK /kˌɒləsˈi‍əm/ ]
[ US /ˌkɑɫəˈsiəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a large amphitheater in Rome whose construction was begun by Vespasian about AD 75 or 80

How To Use Colosseum In A Sentence

  • So he has no plans to plaster the Colosseum with advertisements for his goods? Times, Sunday Times
  • The Romans had the biggest and the grandest gladiator fights in the colosseums where one always beat the best.
  • Emperor of Rome(69-79) who brought prosperity to the empire, reformed the army, was a patron of the arts, and began the building of the Colosseum.
  • I'd struggled in Colosseum crowds in the blistering heat. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even in ruin the Colosseum is a magnificent edifice of great structural interest and aesthetic splendour.
  • The Wigwam Resort is turning its ballroom into a football stadium with a huge rear-projection screen flanked by Roman Colosseum-like pillars.
  • Where the huge velarium that Nero had stretched across the Colosseum at Rome, that Titan sail of purple on which was represented the starry sky, and Apollo driving a chariot drawn by white, gilt-reined steeds? The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Even in ruin the Colosseum is a magnificent edifice of great structural interest and aesthetic splendour.
  • But I imagine the news that the Roman Colosseum appears to have been constructed from loot from the sack of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem might be worth an extra chapter or two?
  • My impression of it was quite vivid enough without that, and the vision of the Colosseum remained, and still remains, the immense skeleton of the stupendous form stripped of all integumental charm and broken down half one side of its vast oval, so that wellnigh a quarter of the structural bones are gone. Roman Holidays, and Others
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