Example sentences for: caffè

How can you use “caffè” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • More quintessentially Roman, on nearby Via Condotti, is the city’s oldest coffee house, the 18th-century Caffè Greco — popular, as you’ll see from pictures, busts, and autographs, with Goethe, Byron, Baudelaire, Liszt, Casanova, and Fellini.

  • Make an early start with breakfast (or come back for a late afternoon apéritif) on Piazza del Popolo at Caffè Rosati, a veritable Roman institution and historical meeting-place of the city’s literary personalities.

  • Most interesting are the Macchiaioli (from the verb “macchiare,” to blotch or stain) school of Tuscan pre-Impressionists, who met at Florence’s Caffè Michelangelo in the 1860s seeking a new freedom from academic art that paralleled the political liberation of the Risorgimento.

  • It is, of course, ubiquitous in the world of sport ("even though Irabu never displayed his overhyped 99-mph fastball"), of fashion ("Tommy Hilfiger, the overhyped American designer"), of trade ("overhyped and overmarketed product"), and of celebrity in general ("a brief and, she says, overhyped liaison with John F. Kennedy Jr."), but it has filtered down to unimaginable levels, much as a grande caffè latte can now be had in the coal fields of West Virginia.

  • Something of the old spirit remains at the handsome Neo-Classical Caffè Pedrocchi, the activists’ meeting place on a little square off bustling Piazza Cavour.


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