Example sentences for: vesuvius

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

  • Three major volcanoes in the south, Naples’ Vesuvius, and Sicily’s Stromboli and Etna, are still active.

  • The waterfront walk at sunset offers timeless views of the bay and Mount Vesuvius, with the contemporary addition of a gleaming-white cruise ship or two.

  • Notice the oil and wine jars in the shops, the bakers’ ovens and flour-grinding mills shaped like giant cotton-reels (excavators found a donkey lying by one he’d been turning when Vesuvius erupted).

  • Vesuvius blotted out the flourishing town along with Herculaneum on 24 August a.d. 79, burying it under 7 m (23 ft) of ash: It is still being slowly excavated.

  • The road from the main gate (Porta Marina, the gate that led to the sea) passes on the right of the basilica law courts and stock exchange to reach the Forum, the center of town and its main public meeting place directly facing Mount Vesuvius.


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