Example sentences for: camões

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

  • In addition to royal tombs, the monastery holds the relics of national heroes Vasco da Gama and the poet Luis de Camões.

  • Luís Vaz de Camões (1524–1580), the Portuguese national poet whose work immortalized that country’s golden age of discoveries, may have stayed in Macau.

  • Local legend claims that he wrote part of his great saga, Os Lusíadas, in what is now called the Camões Grotto, situated in the spacious tropical Camões Garden.

  • The most significant expedition under Manuel’s flag was Vasco da Gama’s legendary sea voyage from Lisbon in the summer of 1497 — immortalized in The Lusiads (1572), the epic poem by Portugal’s national poet, Luís de Camões (1524–1580).

  • Legend holds that the garden’s “pool of tears,” immortalized in the epic poem by Luis de Camões, is stained deep red by the actual blood of the doomed 14th-century lover.


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