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32 examples of Plaza in a sentence

Historic Philadelphia City Hall: its plaza, I felt, needed a material for sculpture that was lighter than netting.
And I had the pleasure to work on the central plaza.
This plaza used to be a chaotic transportation hub that actually compromised the urban integrity of the medina, that has the largest pedestrian network in the world.
And right beyond the historic bridge that you can see here, right next to the plaza, you can see that the river looked like a river of trash.
Instead, what we proposed is to make the plaza entirely pedestrian, to cover it with recycled leather canopies, and to connect it to the banks of the river.
That detail and depth, that glamour gives the plaza a theatrical quality.
In the early 1980s, the architect Philip Johnson tried to recreate a gracious European plaza in Pittsburgh.
But at ground level, the plaza feels like a black glass cage.
This is a section of wall framing a plaza in the pre-Hispanic city of Mitla, in southern Mexico.
The main entrance should have a public plaza in front of it to abide by the zoning code, and so forth.
Imagine a person walking down a plaza and looking 45 degrees to his right side.
Imagine now many different people, all walking in different directions across the plaza, but all looking 45 degrees to the direction that they're moving.
It's as if all those people on the plaza are all walking in the same direction and they're all looking 45 degrees to the right side.
Workers embellished and enlarged the existing church, and added a massive domed baptistry to the plaza.
Quexo can’t find any cinnabar in the market, so he heads to the main temple, dodging children playing in the plaza.
And then the city of Amsterdam gave us a plaza and asked us to do something.
While we built all this up during that week, with the 100 volunteers, a good number of the neighbors surrounding the plaza got very close to it and quite loved it.
And it gets to another issue that was probably inappropriate to discuss six months ago, but perhaps isn't now, which is, not many of us love the World Trade Center as a piece of architecture, as what it had done to this city and that huge plaza.
It welcomes back Lionel from a supposedly long absence, with the Luthorcorp plaza office in Metropolis.
Like: The Manai plaza is in the middle of a sand lot and is much more militarized.
And then in 2012, a belligerent Putin – the one who would later invade Ukraine – rallied his supporters on Moscow’s Poklonnaya Gora plaza, overcame mass protests, and returned to the presidency.
To suggest that parking bays can be carved out of sidewalks is like saying a park or a plaza can be turned into an open-air parking lot with trees.
Rival cartels sparring for control of a plaza, the name given to any trafficking route, butcher each other and the security forces.
"That," said the galley slave, "is like a man having money at sea when he is dying of hunger and has no way of buying what he wants; I say so because if at the right time I had had those twenty ducats that your worship now offers me, I would have greased the notary's pen and freshened up the attorney's wit with them, so that to-day I should be in the middle of the plaza of the Zocodover at Toledo, and not on this road coupled like a greyhound.
He used to seat himself on a bench under the great poplar in our plaza, and there he would keep us all hanging open-mouthed on the stories he told us of his exploits.
This soldier, then, that I have described, this Vicente de la Roca, this bravo, gallant, musician, poet, was often seen and watched by Leandra from a window of her house which looked out on the plaza.
The carter yoked his oxen and made Don Quixote comfortable on a truss of hay, and at his usual deliberate pace took the road the curate directed, and at the end of six days they reached Don Quixote's village, and entered it about the middle of the day, which it so happened was a Sunday, and the people were all in the plaza, through which Don Quixote's cart passed.
don't you know that when a horseman delivers a good lance thrust at the bull in the plaza, or when anyone does anything very well, the people are wont to say, 'Ha, whoreson rip! how well he has done it!' and that what seems to be abuse in the expression is high praise?
A gallant knight shows to advantage bringing his lance to bear adroitly upon a fierce bull under the eyes of his sovereign, in the midst of a spacious plaza; a knight shows to advantage arrayed in glittering armour, pacing the lists before the ladies in some joyous tournament, and all those knights show to advantage that entertain, divert, and, if we may say so, honour the courts of their princes by warlike exercises, or what resemble them; but to greater advantage than all these does a knight-errant show when he traverses deserts, solitudes, cross-roads, forests, and mountains, in quest of perilous adventures, bent on bringing them to a happy and successful issue, all to win a glorious and lasting renown.
A fortnight might have gone by, so the story goes, since the ass had been missing, when, as the regidor who had lost it was standing in the plaza, another regidor of the same town said to him, 'Pay me for good news, gossip; your ass has turned up.''That I will, and well, gossip,' said the other; 'but tell us, where has he turned up?''In the forest,' said the finder; 'I saw him this morning without pack-saddle or harness of any sort, and so lean that it went to one's heart to see him.