Example sentences for: capri

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

  • Take, for example, Pottery Barn's wide-brimmed Capri bowls, which come in bone or light periwinkle.

  • Of the dozen villas that Tiberius built on Capri, his favorite island retreat, the best preserved is the ruins of Villa Jovis (Jupiter’s Villa, or Tiberius’ Villa), sprawling across an eastern promontory opposite the mainland.

  • Evenings are immeasurably calmer, when the local folk venture out to reclaim the cafés and restaurants until the cool wee hours, and restore some of the charm and seduction for which Capri has been a magnet since the times of the ancient Roman emperors.

  • The cave, 54 m (177 ft) long, 15 m (49 ft) high, and 30 m (98 ft) wide, is believed (because of the man-made niches) to have been a nymphaeum, a kind of watery boudoir for the Emperor Tiberius, who retired to Capri in the first century a.d. and built a villa directly above.

  • Another world unto itself, the exhilarating chaos of Naples commands its magnificent bay, the visible isles of Ischia and Capri, and the ruins of Pompeii in the shadow of Vesuvius, its still active volcano.


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