grotto

With time, electricity from solar panels and water from a well turned the grotto into a new home for the 33-year-old Emar, his two wives and 11 children, who nonetheless long for life above ground.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

Nativity play nerves, Santa's grotto queues and Christmas lights crowds can make the festive season a sensory overload for children even before the big day arrives.

From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2025

At the side of a children's playground, there was a square of lawn with a grotto – a small shrine centred on a statue of Mary.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025

The grotto was created from tons of lava rock by rock sculptor and artist Ryozo Fuso Kado.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2025

Inside, a waterfall splashed in a grotto, while a spiraling waterslide connected it to the bottom level, where a miniature beach awaited.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

As I approached the site on my tour bus—the only sanctioned way to visit—hundreds of locked red doors protecting the grottoes came into view, speckled across a sun-bleached cliff face more than a mile long.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Rainwater leaks and rising humidity have damaged ancient cave paintings, including those in the famous Mogao grottoes, it said, and some caves have even collapsed.

From Reuters ● Jul. 17, 2023

The Afro Mermaid Summit — it's so incredibly important for Black and brown mermaids to be able to come together and have a safe space to swim in these beautiful grottoes.

From Salon ● May 28, 2023

John Paul’s remains were moved upstairs from the grottoes and into the main basilica for his 2011 beatification during Benedict’s papacy.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2023

Some of the most common are in this example: The heroes saved the cargoes oftomatoes andpotatoes from the mosquitoes and tornadoes by hiding them in grottoes.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

The area is located near caves and grottos, an environment similar to where Brazil's first known spider-parasitic mite species, Charletonia rocciai, was discovered.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 28, 2026

Children would build grottos from the shells and pester passers-by for pennies for their efforts, with cries of "Pray remember the grotto!"

From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2025

Many popes are buried in tombs in the grottos underneath St. Peter’s Basilica or in side chapels of the basilica itself, including all of Francis’ recent predecessors.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 13, 2023

It’s one of many such grottos in the region, says the study’s lead author, Laura Shackelford, an anthropologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 13, 2023

He constructed elaborate fountains, with grottos containing mechanical singing birds.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton