Example sentences for: nero

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

  • And Chatterbox cites Lapham's mention of "the Roman mob familiar with the expensive claques traipsing after the magnificence of the Emperor Nero."

  • The name Colosseum , now usually taken to refer to its size, originally referred to the fact that the amphitheater was built adjacent to a huge statue (a colossus ) of the sun god that had been commissioned by Nero, allegedly in his own likeness.

  • The mural appears to be an aerial view of Rome as it looked before the Great Fire of A.D. 64, which the megalomaniacal Nero is believed to have set himself.

  • 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.

  • 54–68 Christian persecutions in Rome under Nero


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