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Example sentences for "plazas"

Lexicographically close words:
playtime; playwright; playwrights; playwriting; plaza; plaze; plazed; plazes; plea; pleace
  1. These plazas are flat, open spaces, paved with cement and surrounded by rows of shade trees.

  2. Arecibo boasts one of the most handsome and artistic plazas on the island.

  3. These plazas are usually paved with stone and devoid of vegetation; but this one has a small park in its center, surrounding a beautiful fountain.

  4. We found an unexpected compensation, however, in the friendly glow of the electric lights which illumine the street and plazas of Venezuela's capital.

  5. The city is adorned by a number of broad and beautiful streets and several plazas and parks.

  6. Of course, there are some beautiful spots in the country and plazas in the cities, but all this gush about the beauty and loveliness of things in general makes one tired.

  7. There are nine public parks or plazas in the city of Sucre and through one of these flows two streams of pure water.

  8. The parks or plazas as they are called, are as pretty as nature and the hands of man can make them.

  9. A ramble through the streets and plazas lingers in one's memory like a pleasant dream.

  10. Among the infinite variety of objects that it endows may be counted a province, a town, innumerable plazas and streets, and a brand of cigarettes.

  11. The streets and plazas of Mercedes are fairly animated, for the town is the centre of considerable social life.

  12. There are also plazas and streets regularly laid out, and a reservoir which by a subterranean aqueduct was supplied with water from the Rio Moche two miles distant.

  13. It was laid out in plazas and streets, and the walls bore sculptured hieroglyphics.

  14. Stately palaces and churches were soon erected; wide avenues and beautiful plazas were laid out and substantial walls constructed for defense, and here came in the viceroy’s train the proudest nobility of Spain.

  15. It is one hundred and fifty feet wide and connects the Plazas Bolognesi and Exposición.

  16. Portales, or arcades, extend along the sides of the plazas in front of the shops to afford shelter from the sun.

  17. In both Plazas hundreds of the citizens were walking to and fro, or stood conversing in groups, all anxiously waiting for what the day might bring forth.

  18. As Liniers gave his assent, and ere he had yet signed the deed of abdication, a messenger was sent across the two Plazas to the Cabildo, to the Spaniards who had remained there, telling them that their cause was won.

  19. All the buildings in both Plazas were of brick, plastered and whitewashed, the cathedral being surmounted by a mighty dome.

  20. The plazas and the places near the canal are filled with hucksters and beggars, and you never saw beggars so mutilated and sore and disgusting.

  21. Before the introduction of railways there were comparatively few bull-rings (plazas de toros) in Spain, but these have largely multiplied in recent years, in both Spain and Spanish America.

  22. But the ganaderias of Andalusia still supply most of the animals that die in the plazas of Spain, and command the highest prices.

  23. The position was excellent as far as it went, but the enemy still held two other plazas and the intervening houses, and to dislodge them would have entailed a heavier loss of life than could be afforded.

  24. From early dawn to midnight her ten thousand citizens filled the streets and plazas with revelry and congratulations.

  25. There are eight small plazas but none of them are near the center of business.

  26. There is much verdure and the city has several shady plazas with statues.

  27. This with the absence of plazas as breathing spaces, together with the street crowds give to Rosario an entirely commercial atmosphere.

  28. Its streets are bordered with pepper trees and it has two cool and pleasant plazas in one of which the Italian residents have erected a bust to Columbus.

  29. The Plaza de Armas lacks much of the charm of the plazas in the Chilean cities.

  30. The plazas of Asuncion are a disgrace to the city.

  31. Unfortunately the plazas are not well kept up, and have gone to waste and ruin.

  32. The plazas are handsome, well laid out and planted, and the street architecture creditable, with fewer contrasts of meanness and magnificence than one usually sees in the growing cities of North America.

  33. It must be added that the statues which adorn these plazas do not tempt the passer-by to linger in aesthetic enjoyment.

  34. They hung around the cafes, listening to the latest election bulletins over the cafe radios, or they congregated under the government's loud speakers in the plazas and the broad avenues.

  35. The shouts of the crowds on the broad avenues and the plazas followed him up the small street.

  36. In the morning the plazas glittered in a complete revelation of every hard carving and leaf and painted kiosk, but later the detail merged in airy diagonal structures of shade.

  37. Its gala walls and plazas and promenades, its alternating sparkle and languor, like flags whipping in the wind or drooping about their staffs, always conveyed a spirit of holiday and of a whole absence of splenetic censure.

  38. That air enveloped all the center of the city, its paseos and plazas and buildings, and still influenced the social life.

  39. The young man explained the peculiarities and advantages of the disposition of plazas and boulevards and street car lines, and eventually, from the lay of the land, I grasped the situation.

  40. It was the plan of a great city--a city with plazas connected by wide avenues and boulevards, with streets running at right angles between.

  41. Alfonso the Learned in 1278 ordered the streets to be cleansed and the plazas to be kept free of dead beasts.

  42. The streets and the plazas overflowed with the people in holiday array, all laughing and excited.

  43. Back in Ontario, escalators whisper to the underground shopping plazas and the Gallic snows fall loudest on Quebec.

  44. You the too curious gringo left behind you the coasting steamers & pink squared plazas to forget the taste of warm beer in dreary cantinas.

  45. The walls of most of the kivas, whether in front or in the rear, were greatly dilapidated and in all instances it was necessary to rebuild them to the level of the plazas in which the kivas are situated.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plazas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.