Example sentences for: capri

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Far less known internationally than its glamorous neighboring island of Capri, it is just as different in its volcanic topography as in atmosphere.

  • 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.

  • It has its perennial favorites: the sister islands of Capri and Ischia in the Bay of Naples, the ruins of Pompeii, and the resorts of the singularly beautiful Amalfi coast.


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