esplanade

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Recent Examples of esplanade Details: Opening soon at Thrive City’s esplanade; fikscue.com. Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2025 Disneyland guests can register for DAS online or in person at an Accessibility Services Kiosk in the esplanade between Disneyland and Disney California Adventure. Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025 The approximately 11-acre, concrete-laden public esplanade was designed by Modernist artist Isamu Noguchi and formally dedicated in 1979. Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2024 On a new esplanade overlooking the canal, an odor review was solicited from a shirtless man in his thirties, a resident of an adjacent luxury condo. Jake Offenhartz, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for esplanade
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Noun
  • American military veteran hijacks plane in Belize, officials say The airplane, which had only 14 passengers on board, had been due to fly the short route from Corozal near the Mexican border to San Pedro, a popular tourist destination off the coast.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • It’s set in 1902, in a Gullah community on an island off the coast of Georgia, where a large extended family is preparing to move to the North.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Only after the worst mass extinction of all time, as Earth’s ecosystems struggled to recover from intense global warming spurred by volcanoes, did reptiles began to live by the shoreline and become ever more at home in the water.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
  • However, rising water levels are expected to carry debris that was once on the shoreline out into open waters.
    Asher Redd, FOXNews.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Think of the eastern edge of South America or the coastline around the United Kingdom; these aren’t places with active volcanoes, large earthquakes or other major planetary activity.
    Alexandra Witze, JSTOR Daily, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Such high temperatures are deadly to corals, which protect coastlines from erosion and storms.
    Jade Walker, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • On a riverside in eastern Austria sat a mysterious set of ruins.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Two rivers flow through the heart of the city, offering opportunities for kayaking and riverside swimming.
    Emese Maczko, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Official vendors concentrate in Jackson Square, the Old U.S. Mint and along the riverfront.
    Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The riverfront Intercontinental Hotel Dieu is unabashedly Lyon’s swishest hotel and is well located for walking to the wine bars and restaurants where Beaujolais is poured.
    Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Mallorca may be known for its nightlife, its glorious beaches and lately, unfortunately, some of its tourism growing pains.
    Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The stay in the beach house was supposed to clear their heads, and Joe wasn’t supposed to show up.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Those observations proved less conclusive than had been hoped, but during the rest of the voyage, Cook was able to map the coastland of New Zealand before sailing west to the southeastern coast of Australia—the first record of Europeans on the continent's Eastern coastline.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Today, Tropea onions -- which bear protected geographical produce, or IGP, status -- grow on a 60-mile stretch of Calabrian coastland running from the town of Amantea down to the Capo Vaticano peninsula, below Tropea.
    Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 8 Oct. 2022
Noun
  • The Romans established Londinium just north of the river’s marshy valley after invading Britain in 43 C.E. Colossal wooden quays stood on the ancient settlement’s riverbank.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Image Most of the storm’s damage so far has been caused by floodwaters that overtopped riverbanks and levees, surged through streets and inundated the basements and ground floors of buildings.
    Patrick J. Lyons, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025

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“Esplanade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/esplanade. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.

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