Example sentences for: tiber

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

  • Crowning seven hills along the winding banks of the River Tiber, Rome has numerous different personalities: ancient Rome of imperial ruins; Catholic Rome of Vatican City and countless churches; the Renaissance city of Michelangelo and Raphael or the Baroque of Bernini and Borromini; and a modern metropolis of interminable traffic jams, fashionable boutiques and cafés, as well as factories and characterless apartment buildings that make up the post-war eye-sore suburbs.

  • One relatively unfamiliar hill in Rome, Monte Testaccio , is a sizable, artificial eminence near the Tiber south of the city, rising a hundred feet above the surrounding level.

  • Across the Tiber, Via della Conciliazione , which cleared the approach to the Basilica of St. Peter from centuries-old congestion, commemorates the `Reconciliation' effected by the Lateran Treaty of 1929.

  • Here until the present century there was a bustling landing place for the boats that plied the Tiber, a popular subject in old photographs and prints.

  • Via di Ripetta `Embankment Street' skirts the Tiber River as it passes the Ara Pacis and the Mausoleum of Augustus.


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