Example sentences for: grotto

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

  • First stop is Saint Michael’s Cave, an impressive natural grotto that is sometimes used as a venue for musical performances.

  • A great curiosity of the complex, not at all sculptural, is the Grotto of Prescriptions (Yaofangdong), begun in the year 575.

  • Cave No. 11 is said to contain some 12,000 Buddha figures, more than any other cave; high up on the wall is a tablet reporting that 83 artists worked for six years to complete the carvings in this one grotto.

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

  • The island’s most popular excursion — prettiest by boat from Marina Grande, but also possible by road northwest of Anacapri — is to the celebrated marine cave, the Blue Grotto (Grotta Azzurra), most effective (and crowded) at noon.


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