Example sentences for: tuscan

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

  • Most popular of all, down the coast beyond the naval city of La Spezia, are the beaches of Viareggio, favorite Tuscan resort, together with its more up-market neighbor, Forte dei Marmi.

  • Take a boat excursion out to the pretty island of Giglio; it is one of the islands of the Tuscan archipelago that includes Elba, best known as the island of Napoleon’s retreat.

  • Siena, its proud historic rival, dominates the Tuscan hill towns to the south, while the university town of Perugia and the Assisi of St. Francis are the keys to Umbria’s luminous beauty.

  • Whereas the nucleus of Florence was built to a strict Roman city plan of straight streets intersecting at right angles, Siena has all the Tuscan hill-town’s haphazard organic forms, straggling up and down a forked ridge of not one but three hilltops.

  • Antimony is so called from Greek antimonos , against single(ness) owing to its readiness to react with other substances, but its chemical symbol is Sb, from Latin stibium , the name of a cosmetic and medicinal powder (antimony sulfide) used by Roman women as a hair blackener for their eyebrows, and in ophthalmology (of which there were many Etruscan specialists, thanks in part to the unhealthy swamps of Rome's Tuscan hinterlands) as an eye ointment.


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