Example sentences for: tuscan

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

  • Most interesting are the Macchiaioli (from the verb “macchiare,” to blotch or stain) school of Tuscan pre-Impressionists, who met at Florence’s Caffè Michelangelo in the 1860s seeking a new freedom from academic art that paralleled the political liberation of the Risorgimento.

  • Adding to his woes on the worst day of his premiership, La Nazione of Florence published a letter Thursday from the Tuscan head of the old-guard Communist Party saying Blair would not be welcome on his annual holiday in Tuscany next month.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The surgeon with Tourette's, the blind man who regained his sight to his dismay, the subjects variously marooned in the hippie subculture of 1969 or in a Tuscan village of the 1930s, the remarkably gifted autists--all are admirable, all are moving, all are acutely recognizable in human terms.


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