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 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Despite the dramatic persecution under Nero in the first century a.d. , Christianity spread from Rome through southern Italy, then continued northward.


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