Sorrento
[suh-ren-toh; Italian sawr-ren-taw]
- a seaport in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: resort; cathedral; ancient ruins.
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Contemporary Examples of sorrento
Indeed, they take place from Sorrento to Venice with disturbing frequency.
My grandmother is from Naples so I spent every summer of my childhood traveling between Capri, Sorrento, and the Amalfi Coast.
Historical Examples of sorrento
Gaspar Poussin's storms.Rome, and among the hills of Sorrento.
Modern Painters Volume I (of V)John Ruskin
Two years they were at Santa Margherita, one year at Sorrento.
A Spirit in PrisonRobert Hichens
The distant coast, where dreams Sorrento, was becoming clearer every moment.
A Spirit in PrisonRobert Hichens
The Count, however, had never referred to their parting at Sorrento.
I had an idea he might have gone back to Sorrento to his piano and his books and his fishing.
A Set of SixJoseph Conrad
Sorrento
- a port in SW Italy, in Campania on a mountainous peninsula between the Bay of Naples and the Gulf of Salerno: a resort since Roman times. Pop: 16 536 (2001)
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