How to use plaza in a sentence

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• There was a strange quiet in the normally very lively plaza.From the entry quiet
• Its edifices are oriented on a north–south axis, forming avenuelike areas and plazas.2010, Susan Toby Evans, edited by David L. Webster, Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America: An Encyclopedia, Routledge, →ISBN…. From the entry avenuelike
• A wildly overscale concrete canopy juts over the main entry plaza.2007 October 28, Nicolai Ouroussoff, “Where Gods Yearn for Long-Lost Treasures”, in New York Times. From the entry overscale
• This plaza was the pride of the acropolitan village that served the palace.2007: Roman Payne, Cities & Countries, chapter XIII: The Conscription of the Troops, page 187 (ModeRoom Press; →ISBN). From the entry acropolitan
• Schmoozers do not stand often or long in the middle of big plazas.”1999 January 13, Michael T. Kaufman, quoting William H. Whyte, “William H. Whyte, 'Organization Man' Author and Urbanologist, Is Dead at…. From the entry schmoozer
• Eran adjusted her resplendent costume, two young women wearing traditional headscarfs walked across the plaza nearby.1998 October 29, Stephen Kinzer, “Safranbolu Journal; The Alarming Scarf and Other Turkish Worries”, in The New York Times. From the entry headscarf
• We eventually retire to an icecream parlour on the corner of the plaza.1993, Richard Gott, Land Without Evil: Utopian Journeys Across the South American Watershed, London; New York, N.Y.: Verso, →ISBN, page 265. From the entry icecream parlour
• Gendarmes rolled small but substantial bridges into place midway in the blocks adjacent to the plaza.1924 April 6, Wade Griswold, “A Night in San Salvador”, in Illustrated Daily News, volume 1, number 200, Los Angeles, Calif.: Cornelius…. From the entry tight-rope-walk
• It was located exactly where Westcot would have been, directly across a central plaza from the Disneyland main gate.2006 August 1, Shaun Finnie, The Disneylands That Never Were, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 168. From the entry gate
• There is a similarity between the dynamics of the streets of New York and the dynamics of a Latin American plaza.1990 September 1, Norma Romano-Benner, “Shaping the ’90s”, in Americas. From the entry unashamed
• Children play outside and there are occasions when the older men sit on the plaza in the shade of the house.1979, Irving Goldman, The Cubeo Indians of the Northwest Amazon, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 39. From the entry Cubeo
• This is no Texas feet shampetter,’ says I, ‘where you eat chili-concarne-con-huevos and then holler “Whoopee!” across the plaza.1907, O. Henry, Heart of the West, Seats of the Haughty. From the entry haberdash
• Around and around the plaza the players dodged, Weatherby close behind 'em, pantin' an' laborin' along like a weazy threshin' machine.1905, Leo Crane, “The Foreign Fiddler's Fee”, in Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New, page 134. From the entry weasy
• Gavino Gasataya had to build a torril in the plaza to accommodate all the cattle given him as reward for the information).1999, National Centennial Commission, Philippine revolution: the making of a nation, page 233. From the entry torril
• In the plaza there are people selling many things to eat, such as coffee, tamales, tamalitos, and tacos with cabbage, lettuce, onion and garlic added.1989, H[arvey] Russell Bernard, Jesús Salinas Pedraza, Native Ethnography: A Mexican Indian Describes His Culture, Newbury Park, Calif.…. From the entry tamalito
• Its forbidding brick and concrete exterior looms over a vast, windswept brick plaza in a style architectural critics, not without admiration, call “The New Brutalism.”1988 January 10, “If You Can’t Fight City Hall, Here’s a Different Idea: Sell It”, in The New York Times. From the entry forbidding
• THE PIGEONS SCATTERED as I walked onto the University of Washington campus, crossing the snow skifted plaza of Red Square with an important document tucked under my arm.2013, Carlene Cross, Fleeing Fundamentalism: A Minister's Wife Examines Faith. From the entry skift
• We walk around to central world plaza, navigating crowded pavements chock a block with street vendors selling everything from fresh fish to meat on a stick to Thai beer.2013, Edward Wilson, Travels With Kirsty: In Search of a Different Life, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry chock a block
• The plaza also allows for sociability with the downstairs neighbor, Simon (Tony Hale), a jivey video store owner whose obsolete livelihood means that he has time on his hands.2007 March 15, Virginia Heffernan, “With a Couch Potato’s Style, Private Eye Works the Mall”, in New York Times. From the entry jivey
• W. and I stopped outside Thermopolis and bought two jumbo coffees and microwave gutbomb burritos at a fuel plaza with a food mart big as an Albertson's.2006, Lily Burana, Try, St. Martin's Griffin, published 2007, →ISBN, page 176. From the entry gutbomb
• As the actors rehearsed their stiltwalking and singing, the “town crazy man,” Zé, wandered in and out of the plaza, playing among Shakespeare's comedians of the sertão.2003, W. B. Worthen, Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance, page 166. From the entry stiltwalking
• Folding tables were scattered about the plaza, each covered with stickers and buttons bearing guilt-trippy — or even nonsensical—slogans like "Bicycle for clean air" and "DON'T BE AN SOV!"2002, Chris Carlsson, Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration, →ISBN, page 100. From the entry guilt-trippy
• At shopping plazas and stores all over the country this year, children are sitting on the laps of buxom Santas with high voices and rouge on their beards.1979 December 17, F.P., “I saw Daddy kissing Santa Claus”, in The Staunton Leader, volume 132, number 246, Staunton, Va., →OCLC, page 4…. From the entry Ms. Claus
• The toll plaza will consist of an administration building and 16 onside modern barrier-type toll boths, with provision for four additional toll booths should future traffic demand require them.1957, California Highways and Public Works - Volume 36, page 45. From the entry onside
• Turn to the south, and you see the Central Acropolis, a five-story palace where the nobles might have sat to watch plaza ceremonies or the famous Quidditch-like Mayan ball games.2007 December 16, Ethan Todras-Whitehill, “In Tikal, Temples in the Mist”, in New York Times. From the entry quidditch
• It is a rare sunny afternoon in an epically miserable London June when the wide South Bank plaza area along the Thames near Waterloo Bridge begins filling with bicycle riders.2007 November, Todd Balf, “Critical Mess”, in Bicycling. From the entry epically
• During a thundershower of biblical proportions, hundreds of people dash from a train station in the Tokyo suburb of Kawaguchi, across a bricked plaza and into a modern civic center.2002 July 1, Tim Larimer, “Cult Shock”, in Time, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2012. From the entry biblical

Meaning of plaza

1. noun A town's public square.
2. noun An open area used for gathering in a city, often having small trees and sitting benches.
3. noun A strip mall.

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Questions about plaza in a sentence

How do you use plaza in a sentence?

Plaza is used as a noun. For example: “Tourists gathered in the central plaza.”

What is a short sentence with plaza?

“Tourists gathered in the central plaza.”

What does plaza mean?

Plaza means a town's public square.