Example sentences for: stalactites

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

  • Take a trip to nearby Conca dei Marini to visit the stalactites of the Grotta di Smeraldo or Emerald Grotto, where the waters are as brilliantly emerald green as those of Capri’s Grotta Azzurra are blue, believed by many to be even more beautiful.

  • Cave paintings and prehistoric remains, including a shrine to the goddess Noctiluca, have been found and there is a beautiful underground lake with stalactites.

  • Skirted with geometric tiling, the walls and roof are overlaid with delicately shaped plaster stalactites, reaching 18 m (60 ft) to the carved and painted wooden ceiling.

  • The caves have cathedral-like dimensions, with hundreds of stalactites and stalagmites hundreds of thousands of years old.

  • The three doorways, with stonework dripping like stalactites, represent Faith, Hope, and Charity, and are loaded with sculptures depicting angel choirs and musicians, and Biblical episodes such as the birth and youth of Jesus, the Flight into Egypt, the Slaughter of the Innocents, the Tree of Calvary, and much, much more.


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