Example sentences for: pozzuoli

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

  • Lying at the western end of the Bay of Naples — reached by ferry or hydrofoil from Naples and Pozzuoli — the island has won the overwhelming favor of German and Scandinavian tourists and package tours in the summer, thanks to thermal springs, fine sandy beaches, and good facilities for watersports.

  • In response to the letter from Mrs. Maughan S. Mason [XXI, 4, 17] regarding the odor emanating from Pozzuoli (Naples), I did not know there was a refinery there, but I do know that it's a sulfur area (probably a bath in ancient times), and it does smell to high heaven.

  • Years later I read that the expression comes from the first two letters of Puteoli (Pozzuoli), near Naples, whose refineries produced such a stench in ancient times that seamen entering the Bay of Naples could smell the town long before they set eyes on it.

  • I know: during WWII I was stationed in Naples and we would go to Pozzuoli.


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