7 sentences with 'volcano'
Example sentences and phrases with the word volcano and other words derived from it.
• « Spartacus set up a war camp on the slopes of the volcano Vesuvius, to which thousands of slaves fled, culminating in an "army" of about 70,000. »
• « Unfortunately, almost as soon as he took the throne a volcano in southern Italy, Mount Vesuvius, erupted, followed soon after by another great fire as well as an epidemic in Rome. »
• « In 726, a volcano devastated the island of Santorini in the Aegean Sea. Leo III took this as proof that the veneration of icons had gone too far, as some of his religious advisors had told him. »
• « Io, Jupiter's natural satellite, is the size of our moon. But its soil composition and chemistry have nothing to do with our satellite: it is a living volcano, a sulphur satellite. »
• « Attention now: this is the biggest mountain you will ever see. It is Mars' Olympus Mons, probably the largest volcano in the entire solar system, three times higher than Mount Everest above sea level. »
• « We now drive through a huge mountain system that includes a canyon known as Diana Chasma; until we get there, we will circle around it so that everyone can see it and take pictures if they wish, on the edge of a real boiling caldera: it is the active source of a Venusian volcano. »
• « The Unzen volcano - on the island of Kyushu in southern Japan - exploded in full fury in June 1991 after 200 years of repose. Forty people died, including French volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft. »