Example sentences for: grotto

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

  • There are walkways down to a lagoon enclosed by menacing rocks, and if weather conditions are calm, this open-air grotto is a paradise for snorkelers.

  • On the bay’s southwestern promontory is the fascinating Grotta di ­Nettuno (Neptune’s Grotto).

  • To the modern eye, they form a Renaissance and Baroque theme park dotted with loggias, cool fountains, grottoes with artificial stalactites, and myriad statues of gods, nymphs, and grotesques (derived from the word “grotto”).

  • Today, Kusama is a cult figure in the Japanese avant-garde, recognized not only for her art but for her novels as well--gothic fables of sexual violence set in New York, with titles like The Hustler's Grotto of Christopher Street (which ends with a suicidal leap from the Empire State Building) and The Burning of St. Mark's Church .

  • On one side of this natural balcony you will find a tiny chapel dedicated to the Virgen de la Peña (Our Lady of the Mountain), set in a grotto carved from living rock.


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