Example sentences for: lagoon

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

  • Narrow cobbled streets plunge downhill to a quay and market where boats bob at anchor on a wide, marshy lagoon.

  • Resist, though, the temptation to throw coins into the crystal clear lagoon; the attendant corrosion of the metal kills the crabs.

  • Out in the lagoon, Venetians have been manufacturing glass on the island of Murano since 1292, when the hazardous furnaces were moved away from the city center.

  • Just four minutes by vaporetto from the Piazzetta, on its own little island, is the church of San Giorgio Maggiore; its campanile offers the most photogenic view of the city and its lagoon.

  • Where the Grand Canal empties into the lagoon stands the imposing church of Santa Maria della Salute — “la Salute” to the Venetians — is the masterpiece of Baldassare Longhena, built to mark the city’s deliverance from a plague in 1630.


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