Example sentences for: lucia

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

  • Celebrated in song, the old popular harbor district of Santa Lucia is now lined with elegant hotels and restaurants, many overlooking the formidable medieval Castel dell’Ovo on its own islet, with a handful of outdoor trattorias and cafés that enjoy a unique setting.

  • This culture-nature split corresponds, in Walcott's personal mythology, with a split in himself: his European education and Caribbean childhood; his two homes, in Boston and St. Lucia; the two races, white and black, of his ancestry; and "the two languages I know--one so rich/ in its imperial intimacies, its echo of privilege,/ the other like the orange words of a hillside in drought--/ but my love of both wide as the Atlantic is large."

  • As the East Caribbean dollar , it is used by several small countries who do not have their own money: Antigua, Dominica, Grenada, St. Christopher and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent.

  • The paucity of books in his native St. Lucia led, paradoxically, to an excellent literary education grounded in the heavily accented rhythms of Shakespeare, the Anglican hymnal, and the King James Bible.

  • The helplessness of Lucia in this fantasy, and the idea of "Bacchus ravisht by his tree," may make us uneasy on feminist grounds; but the corrective reality of the last line--the physical fact of the helpless erection--corrects and undermines the imagination's unreal fantasy of domination.


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