How to Use grotto in a Sentence

grotto

noun
Definition of grottonext
Synonyms for grottonext
  • Don't miss the Blue Cave, a grotto carved into the cliff a few yards down.
    — Lila Battis, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The kitchen also boasts a wine grotto, a breakfast nook and a bar.
    — Ryan Conner, Dallas News, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Outside, the home has a pool with a covered grotto and a swim-up bar.
    — Mary Grace Granados, Dallas News, 18 June 2021
  • The grotto comes with three cheeses from Bardwell's Best.
    — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 20 Dec. 2022
  • There’s a long and eerie walk from the drop-off spot through a grotto to the beach, which is indeed splendid.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 July 2021
  • In the deep jungle of Kauai, a faint trail cut past a grotto of sword ferns and below a web of tree limbs.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • All of this is in the cavernous atrium, the cathedral or grotto space.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Fire up the grotto and alert the Bunnies: Playboy wants to bring its (in)famous mansion to the metaverse.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Each of us seems to dwell alone within a damp grotto of private thoughts.
    — Melissa Fay Greene, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2021
  • One of the coolest features, though, has got to be the rock grotto on the lower swimming level.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The film’s visual peak is (of course) the Venus grotto at Schloss Linderhof.
    — Joseph Horowitz, WSJ, 15 June 2018
  • The rest of the day was spent sitting on a damp log in a mossy grotto that lacked even a sliver of sunlight to warm things up.
    — Susan Casey, Field & Stream, 6 Dec. 2020
  • The grounds have a 5-hole golf course, golf driving range, a sports court, a resort-like grotto pool, a skate park, and a guest house.
    — Melissa Montoya, Peoplemag, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Under the waterfalls, there’s a grotto with TVs and a bar.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Your kids will unleash their inner mermaid in the swim-through grotto at the pool.
    — Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 29 June 2023
  • Even cooler, a 75-foot lap pool sits in the whale’s tail and flows into a secret grotto.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 21 July 2023
  • The grounds have a five-hole golf course, golf driving range, a sports court, a resort-like grotto pool, a skate park, and a guest house.
    — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
  • What Happens Live of the famed grotto (a cave-like structure with a pool) at the Mansion parties.
    — Grace Gavilanes, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The present tense: to take a loveless path is to court a purple-blue emptiness, like a disco or a grotto.
    — Diane Seuss Anne Boyer, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The dining area opens to a butler’s pantry/wine grotto with custom iron doors.
    — Dallas News, 17 Oct. 2020
  • And your plunge pool is a seafront grotto consecrated to the nymphs in ancient times.
    — Wendy Perrin, Town & Country, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The school is also planning to renovate the area around the grotto of the virgin Mary, Ruffing said.
    — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Between the goddess and her nymphs, bathing in the sacred grotto, lives the premise of chastity even as the nymphs flirt in their eloquent poses.
    — Claudia Rankine, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • Pinch your nose skin to see a few: Thin noodles of dead skin that eject from your pores like eels from undersea grottoes.
    — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 5 Apr. 2019
  • The childlike Tick is enthralled by the grotto and drags Arthur to the site for a visit, where Dinosaur Neil welcomes them warmly.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2019
  • The three-story home features a wine grotto and wide, arched doorways with millwork.
    — Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Or, see these chimney-like spires up close while hiking the easy Mossy Cave Trail to a natural grotto.
    — Nina Kokotas Hahn, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The house is gone, but remnants of his pool, including its legendary rock grotto, are still there.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The grounds include a coy pond and pond house; a pool with grotto, basketball court and guesthouses.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Visitors can walk through the grotto, touching the walls, sometimes as a priest conducts Mass in front.
    — Chris O'Brien, latimes.com, 11 July 2019

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