(n.) A clear space between a citadel and the nearest houses of the town.
(n.) The glacis of the counterscarp, or the slope of the parapet of the covered way toward the country.
(n.) A grass plat; a lawn.
(n.) Any clear, level space used for public walks or drives; esp., a terrace by the seaside.
Example Sentences:
(1) Others described victims being hurled around like mannequins and bodies littering the esplanade in the wake of the zigzagging truck.
(2) Others described victims being hurled around like mannequins, bodies littering the esplanade in the wake of the zigzagging truck.
(3) The military tattoo has been staged on the castle esplanade for 66 years and the castle will be the backdrop and launchpad for a vast firework display that traditionally marks the end of the international festival every year.
(4) Heading further east, the esplanade is dotted with churches and forts interspersed with bars and restaurants – Barreirinha is a lively cafe-bar with a terrace.
(5) Nice’s waterfront was all but deserted on Friday, beaches empty, cafes abandoned, the esplanade cordoned off and the white truck used in the attack visible from a distance, its windscreen pockmarked with bullet holes and its front buckled.
(6) He told her: I was at the end of Scarbrough Esplanade, Skegness, which is beside the pier.
(7) The film takes place in a terrain of rocks, woods, esplanades by the lake, pavilions and ornamental bridges.
(8) Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a chauffeur and a petty criminal who lived in the Riviera city , accelerated the heavy goods vehicle through thick crowds for more than a mile along a beachfront esplanade on Thursday night, turning a Bastille Day festival of fireworks and families into carnage before police shot him dead.
(9) Pushchairs thrown over the esplanade and onto the beach; others, lying higgledy-piggledy on their side on the pavement, abandoned by parents desperate to get their children out of harm’s way; and between the smears of dried blood staining the tarmac, the blue blankets covering some of the 84 men, women and children who died.
(10) Classic examples include Morelli's in Broadstairs , Rossi's on the Esplanade in Weymouth , where the ice-cream has been made from scratch on the premises since the 1930s, and Ives on Aldeburgh High Street, where unusual flavours include rhubarb and lemon curd.
(11) However, a small group of Rousseff supporters staged a candlelit vigil in the main esplanade.
(12) This is the foreshore walk, looking away from the Pier in the direction of Tower Esplanade, shortly before 7pm; about 40 minutes before high tide.
(13) What Barack Obama will see, when on Friday he becomes the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima , is a large esplanade lined with trees, with a cenotaph monument to the victims of the A-bomb, with the words: “the error of the past will not be repeated”.
(14) One by one they came – vessels the size of tenement blocks – disgorging holidaymakers on to an esplanade dotted with little white buildings in scenes of exuberant commotion.
(15) The beach is at the end of an elegant esplanade that leads up to tree-lined residential streets and Connaught Avenue, dubbed the Bond Street of East Anglia.
(16) When I visited the town, the esplanade was still festooned with forlorn pink ribbons, put there by locals desperately hoping the five-year-old would be found.
(17) I'm thinking a row of fracking wells along the Southsea esplanade , or at the very least a large offshore wind farm at the neck of Portsmouth harbour.
(18) There is talk, too, of a turf war along the esplanade between rival drug dealers battling to control distribution.
(19) I’ve seen hobos on the Esplanade address bigger crowds,” he wrote.
Pier
Definition:
(n.) Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings.
(n.) Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress.
(n.) A projecting wharf or landing place.
Example Sentences:
(1) In north Wales, Llandudno town council has had to cancel its annual display at short notice after it was told it would have to pay at least £22,000 to insure the wonderful Victorian pier in case of a fire.
(2) The centre-left PD party, for example, is in turmoil - with leader Pier Luigi Bersani resigning over the weekend after both his favoured candidates for the presidency were rejected.
(3) In between, I watch a parade of Berliner life: women chain-smoking in the pool’s trademark wicker chairs, fully clothed men sipping a morning beer in the 26C heat, kids jumping off the diving pier and screaming down the large waterslide.
(4) The Piers Harris Self-Concept Scale was administered to 174 fourth and sixth graders, half of whom attended SDP schools and half control schools.
(5) For all that it might suggest seaside breaks and afternoons whiled away on the pier, the Norfolk town of Great Yarmouth does not feel like a happy place.
(6) You think that your experiences are anything compared to mine?” In response to the recording journalist, Piers Morgan tweeted: “This tape is outrageous.
(7) Model Katie Price's interview with Piers Morgan, in which she spoke about her breakup with husband Peter Andre and her recent miscarriage, brought 4.5 million viewers to ITV1 on Saturday, 11 July.
(8) "I ask because I saw Piers Morgan on TV suggesting that Arsenal were the best team ever because they went a season without losing.
(9) Two reservation groups, matched for age and sex, received four administration of a personal (Piers-Harris) and an Indian self-concept scale, in a repeated measures counterbalanced design, varying language and order.
(10) "I have a lot of admiration for Rupert Murdoch personally," Brown told GQ's interviewer, Piers Morgan.
(11) Abbado's land cascades down a steep slope into the Mediterranean, and you have to negotiate a series of crazily angled wooden walkways, designed by him, to get to his beach and the pier for his yacht.
(12) Jeremy’s older brother Piers – a self-employed weather forecaster – was a prime example.
(13) Is it any wonder that Piers Morgan has moved to the US?
(14) He would soon find strong allies in Pier Luigi Bersani, leader of the Italian left, who would sweep Italy off her feet, and in the German Social Democrats who would finally oust Angela Merkel from power.
(15) That wasn't a problem, as long as there was a high turnover of new initiates, all figuratively staggering out of Margate pier at six in the morning, convinced they had just discovered the future of music.
(16) Piers Morgan has spent a bitter week hitting out at his former CNN colleague Anderson Cooper, blaming the dismal ratings for Piers Morgan Tonight on Cooper’s poor lead-in.
(17) Because – and I hate to break this to Piers – if you are emasculated by the notion of a woman making her own reproductive choices, then you were never much of a man to begin with.
(18) What's always puzzled me about the charge sheet against Boris is the Piers Gaveston problem.
(19) Compared with the other designs, prostheses with nonrigid connectors at the pier exhibited greater apical and horizontal stress particularly with one-point loading on the pier.
(20) There are bad days, increasingly so for them, but then there are days like this that break new boundaries of cataclysmic play and make those of us who predicted a close series seem like end-of-the-pier charlatan soothsayers.