Example sentences for: nero

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

  • No, not the fiddling of Nero or Nashville.

  • In that year, there were four emperors (Nero, Otho, Galba, and Vespasian), and the secret of the Roman Empire--that in a time of turmoil, a provincial commander with an army could march on Rome and become emperor--was revealed, but Rome's decline was a long way off.

  • The 17th-century chapel of Domine Quo Vadis marks the site where St. Peter, fleeing Nero’s persecution in Rome, is said to have encountered Christ.

  • Other writers call Clinton "more Nero than hero," compare him to ineffectual 19 th century President Grover Cleveland, and bemoan his inability to carry through promises about health care, race, education, and job training.

  • Immediately northeast of the Colosseum is the Domus Aurea, the fabulous villa with extensive gardens built by the Emperor Nero, who spent just a few years in his “Golden House” before killing himself in a.d. 68.


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