Examples of boulevard in a Sentence
the city is celebrated for its broad, tree-lined boulevards
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On a spring day in 1869, at a salon on one of Paris’s bustling boulevards, a group of prominent thinkers — including some of Pasteur’s close colleagues — discussed science’s future.
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Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 15 Sep. 2025
And there’s nothing tomblike about the constant rumble of traffic from the boulevard outside.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Few cities in the world exude such intrigue as Paris, where every boulevard seems to hide a story and every building appears a work of art.
—Madeline Weinfield, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2025
Two Palestinians from the West Bank opened fire on a major boulevard and light rail station in the Tel Aviv area, killing seven people and leaving many others wounded.
—Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
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Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 15 Sep. 2025
And there’s nothing tomblike about the constant rumble of traffic from the boulevard outside.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Few cities in the world exude such intrigue as Paris, where every boulevard seems to hide a story and every building appears a work of art.
—Madeline Weinfield, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2025
Two Palestinians from the West Bank opened fire on a major boulevard and light rail station in the Tel Aviv area, killing seven people and leaving many others wounded.
—Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Boulevard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boulevard. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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boulevard
noun
bou·le·vard
ˈbu̇l-ə-ˌvärd 
ˈbül-
: a wide avenue often having grass strips with trees along its center or sides
Etymology
from French boulevard "walkway lined with trees," derived from early Dutch bolwerc "bulwark, rampart"; so called because the earliest boulevards were at sites of razed fortifications — related to bulwark
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