Coliseum in a sentence as a noun

Touring the ruins of the coliseum doesn't exactly make you want to live in antient Rome...

The money train is often just a mobile coliseum. There's no escaping the gladiator aspects role.

Our science teacher in the 7th grade made a model coliseum out of foam-core and would release crickets into it for her lizards to eat during homeroom

As fun as it is to make fun of cubicles, they're a **** of a lot more comfortable then being on an assembly line of desks in a giant coliseum. Though no matter where your office is, it eventually gets boring.

If you stand outside the coliseum 15 minutes before an ENO performance, you will see - most surely - opera lovers hogging the pavements. I cannot imagine for one moment a PC handing out a citation to a single one of them.

I cannot help but think of what a colossal waste of perfectly good life it is to reduce human existence to the drudgery of the coliseum. And yet, when confronted with reality, I must almost everyday glumly admit that such a reality is the one we live in.

Just as a medieval peasant had no hope of figuring out how to build a coliseum or an aqueduct, a modern American neoliberal technocrat is entirely un-equipped to engineer, build, or plan much of anything.

Coliseum definitions

noun

an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held

See also: amphitheater amphitheatre