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a small cave — usually with attractive features- We visited the famous Blue Grotto at Italy's island of Capri.
- a natural grotto deep in the woods
- We passed the night in a grotto hollowed in the snow, which afforded us but poor shelter...Mark Twain -- A Tramp Abroad
- The burning snakes twisted horribly and some crawled burning across the floor of the grotto to illuminate its darker recesses.Cormac McCarthy -- The Road
- The grotto by Missing's back wall and in earshot of the little creek was rapidly becoming the family burial plot.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- The carved steps finally opened into a cold, moist grotto whose walls were covered in gray-green fungi.Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
- Day and night they heard the muffled thud of the picks above and dreamt of the collapse of the grotto and of every ghastly eventuality.Richard Adams -- Watership Down
- Then Rhunon led him to a low, grotto-like chamber set within the trunk of one of the trees out of which her house was grown.Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
- "If you go on nagging, I'll drag you back to Martin's grotto and chain you up again."Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- The walls were lined with the dark openings of caves, which differed in size from grottoes no larger than a man to a gaping cavern larger than a house.Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
- When they grew up, they built a town called Qianjiadong—the Thousand-Family Grotto.Lisa See -- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
- He now realized that the walls of the cave had dissolved around him, and he was standing in a grotto on the backside of the waterfall.William P. Young -- The Shack
- There the heat was thick; it collected stagnant in the rocks, which were soft and eaten by rain acids into grottos and Cambodian shapes.Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
- She walks me down into a grotto, past a circle of tall crystals, delicate as glass.Libba Bray -- A Great and Terrible Beauty
- The grave decisions facing the camerlegno required information .... information entombed in a sarcophagus in the Vatican Grottoes.Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
- They stood in a ragged line, facing the shadowed grotto.Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
- Above the foyer, nine different levels bear names like the Grotto, the Crypt Room, and the Knights Templar Chapel.Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
- From what she can tell, it's a low grotto, maybe four yards long and half as wide, shaped like a loaf of bread.Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
- I'm going to kiss every inch of your naked skin, your lovely breasts, and your delicious grotto.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
- Someone had built a grotto of rocks around the base of the tub.Pam Munoz Ryan -- Esperanza Rising
grotto = small cave