esplanade

How To Use esplanade In A Sentence

• Medieval towers sprout hither and yon, frontages on the titchy streets have a stately aspect, and from the esplanade by the cathedral, the landscape looks mildly Tuscan.
• We took our station at the top of a rich Persian's house, opposite a spacious esplanade and contiguous to a large pagoda; in the centre of the esplanade was fixed a capstern, with a pole about sixty feet long, which was fixed so as to be occasionally raised or lowered. Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales
• she asked him, and hurried on in across the esplanade of concrete, into the gallery, out of the cold. LOST CHILDREN
• His duty was to return the salute from the soldiers on the esplanade below each time a band finished its selection of military marches.
• We walked up the slope and on to the esplanade.
• A plaza joins a public esplanade which is planned to eventually connect all of Tacoma's waterfront.
• If you stroll down the Kaivopuisto esplanade in Helsinki, there are some wooden benches along the harbour that look like picnic benches.
• The esplanade was a broad walk extending the entire width of the building, and conforming to it. A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West
• When city founder John Graves Simcoe first sailed into our harbour in 1793, he reportedly suggested that the waterfront would make a lovely spot for an esplanade, maybe a park as well.
• Stretching from the castle esplanade to the palace of Holyroodhouse, the Royal Mile, or High Street, has undergone various incarnations since it came into being in mediaeval times.