Example sentences for: tuscan

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

  • Nevertheless, hunting continues to have an atavistic hold on many Tuscan men over the age of 50, and it is among this group that the poisoners--probably only a handful of them--are assumed to lurk.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Tuscan painter Simone Martini has decorated the St. Martin Chapel (first left) with exquisite frescoes, including a most aristocratic Jesus appearing in St. Martin’s dream.

  • 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.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast