NOUN
- a volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast; a Plinian eruption in 79 AD buried Pompeii and killed Pliny the Elder; last erupted in 1944
How To Use Mount Vesuvius In A Sentence
- (This was what she called Mount Etna and Mount Vesuvius.) ‘It does the lemons and grapes good.’ The Pink Fairy Book
- The Romans invented concrete, mixed from pozzolana, a volcanic ash mined on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, which forms a natural cement when combined with lime.
- It's many years since Mount Vesuvius last erupted.
- It's many years since Mount Vesuvius last erupted.
- They marched to the beautiful country at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, which was then a harmless mountain clothed with chestnut woods, with spaces opening between, where farms and vineyards rejoiced in the sunshine and the fresh breezes of the lovely blue bay that lay stretched beneath. A Book of Golden Deeds
- Mount Vesuvius' eruption buried the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in volcanic ash and lapilli, preserving it in its current ghost-town-like state.
- Afghanite occurs as small, typically colorless transparent crystals associated with a wide variety of feldspathoids in volcanic ejecta collected in the general Mount Vesuvius area, Italy.
- It's many years since Mount Vesuvius last erupted.
- It's many years since Mount Vesuvius last erupted.
