Example sentences for: sorrento

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

  • Ferries or hydrofoils leave from Naples, Sorrento, and Positano (and Amalfi in the summer months only) for this fabled island 10 sq km (4 sq miles) in size.

  • As you know, when the marvelous Steerforth press brought out one of Dawn's genuine masterpieces, originally released as The Tenth Moon , I asked them to call it Come Back to Sorrento , for that was Powell's title--and we know from her diaries that she was furious about the name her publishers had inflicted on her.

  • Compare their modern and sadly more commercialized wares with their forefathers’ elaborate Baroque furniture exhibited at the Museo Correale, in an 18th-century palazzo at the east end of town — Sorrento’s only real museum of note.

  • To the south, the former fishing villages of Sorrento and Positano spill down the craggy cliffs of the serpentine Amalfi coast, justifiably tauted as one of the world’s most beautiful drives.

  • Many cities continue to be renowned for products of their traditional crafts: Naples’ costumed hand-crafted figures for its nativity sets, Sorrento’s intarsia (inlaid wood for furniture, frames or music boxes), Volterra’s alabaster, Gubbio’s ceramics, Florence’s leathergoods, Venice’s glassware.


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