(n.) An open square in a European town, especially an Italian town; hence (Arch.), an arcaded and roofed gallery; a portico. In the United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda.
Example Sentences:
(1) The film-maker had been due to present his new film Venus in Fur , which stars his wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, at an outdoor screening in Locarno’s Piazza Grande on Thursday.
(2) About 4,000 government-issued shovels were handed out in several main piazzas to Romans trying to clear their streets before a freeze forecast for Sunday evening.
(3) But because Piazza didn't issue a stay, Arkansas' 75 county clerks were left to decide for themselves whether to grant marriage licenses.
(4) As a small group of Abbado's relatives, including two of his children, looked on, Barenboim, La Scala's current music director, appeared quietly moved as the commemorative performance ended after about 20 minutes to dignified applause from the piazza.
(5) For Fo, the key to understanding Grillo is not in 21st-century Italy but in the 13th century, when storytellers – giullari – roamed Italy, entertaining crowds in piazzas with lewd and ancient tales interwoven with satirical attacks on local potentates.
(6) The sea voyage takes roughly 1½ hours; tickets start at €10pp; advance booking is recommended during high season Ventotene Facebook Twitter Pinterest The piazza in Ventotene.
(7) Curtis' new time-travel romantic comedy About Time, starring Domnhall Gleeson and Rachel McAdams has been invited to screen in the 8000-seat outdoor Piazza Grande venue, alongside the award-winning Chilean film Gloria , and the much-admired US indie Blue Ruin, fresh from the Director's Fortnight at Cannes.
(8) St Paul's Cathedral has denied asking the protesters camped out on its piazza as part of the Occupy London Stock Exchange demonstration to leave.
(9) If we had not done an electoral campaign in the midst of the people, in the piazzas – hard-nosed and open-faced in a very strong way – we would have been carried away, as happened in other countries."
(10) I pushed my way through the crowd, burst into the empty piazza, and found myself in dead space, caught in a stand-off between two battle lines – on one side police in blue-black riot gear, drumming batons on their clear, hard shields, and on the other a rough assembly of kids and young adults, mainly black or Arab, boys and girls, dressed in hip-hop fashion, singing, laughing, and throwing stuff.
(11) In Whitehaven, outside the struggling Pizza Piazza and next to the peeling paint of the closed-down Adrenaline tattoo parlour, Mrs Burns says no one wants atomic waste dumps in the area but you have to be realistic: "Do-gooders want to shut down nuclear, but without Sellafield we would all be crippled."
(12) He publicly backed Grillo this year, co-writing a book on the comedian's fledgling political movement and giving him a ringing endorsement at a packed rally in Milan's Piazza Duomo days before the election.
(13) On Friday, the head of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest US lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights, praised Piazza's ruling.
(14) The 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan left 16 dead and more than 80 wounded.
(15) It also has nine restaurants and five bars, more than 60,000 square feet of meeting and conference space, a 4,700 space parking facility, a spa and fitness centre and a 100,000 sq ft events piazza.
(16) If you don’t have time for an excursion, join the queue of students and office workers for a blow-out sandwich at Walter Clinica del Panino or the legendary Pepen , both a few metres from the central Piazza Garibaldi.
(17) Jo Piazza , Senior Digital Editor, Current TV When we start thinking about whether Sheryl is restarting the women's movement I think it is interesting to note her word choice.
(18) We base ourselves just outside the fishing town of Rovinj, its harbour-side cafes and cobbled piazzas overlooked by streets of handsome baroque and renaissance buildings, built between 1283-1797 when Rovinj was the Venetian empire's prized Blue Pearl.
(19) Annalisa Piazza at Newedge Strategy said: Energy inflation explains most of the upswing.
(20) These are just a few with more here : Il Balon di Torino and Gelateria Popolare Get up early and head down to the Balon behind the Piazza della Repubblica, or Porta Palazzo as it’s more commonly known.
Pizza
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) For example, Asda lifted the price of frozen pizza from £1.50 to £2 as a “two for £3” offer appeared – and dropped the price again when the offer concluded.
(2) An obese man with a withered leg limps down Tollcross Road, eating pizza from a cardboard box.
(3) The sandwiches served in selected Subway stores have contained halal meat since 2007, while all Pizza Express chicken is halal.
(4) The salesman, who had no medical training, arrived each week with pizza to assure Masih that claims of addiction were exaggerated and to press him to prescribe more of the drug.
(5) Detectives say when Yeates was in the Tesco Express she had bought a Tesco Finest tomato, mozzarella and basil pesto pizza.
(6) I have no doubt that these friendships, forged in adversity and pizza, will be patched up.
(7) When we meet him again in the film, he’s still working at the police station, still able to be swayed by a good slice of pizza.
(8) Driscroll told 3AW that he had not yet received the payment from Domino’s Pizza.
(9) A host of activities are on offer, from barbecue or pizza parties to bar crawls, and guests are welcome to visit the community projects that Backpack sponsors, including vegetable gardens, knitting and football for kids.
(10) Like pizza and vermouth, MSG was a taste American soldiers brought home with them.
(11) John Micklethwait said he has real concerns that the freedom of the press, which the press has enjoyed for over 300 years, is now being threatened by a "mad" deal struck over pizza in Ed Miliband's office in the small hours of Monday morning.
(12) It is not known how much Wonga paid for the deal, which includes broadcast, online and mobile sponsorship, but last year's show was sponsored by pizza company Domino's for £1m .
(13) Guar gum was incorporated into 10 g carbohydrate portions of cheese biscuits and 20 g carbohydrate portions of pizza and egg and bacon flan.
(14) Pizza Re: - "Well, qualifying for every tournament bar 2008 and getting out of every group stage bar 2000 aint that bad a track record for England is it?
(15) Italian authorities said in a statement after his arrest in Thailand that the Pizza Connection inquiry "showed the central role of the Sicilian mafia in the refining and trafficking of heroin, the proceeds of which were largely laundered by Palazzolo".
(16) The plot revolved around the death of a mentally disturbed pizza delivery man who ends up killing himself in a robbery.
(17) When Domino’s Pizza did not acknowledge or participate in the proceedings, Driscoll was awarded the case by default, with the chain ordered to pay $1,203.27 to cover his legal fees as well as the $37.35 order.
(18) Arek came down to get a pizza – it was the first time he came down to get one.
(19) Good idea,'" he says – as if the decision was as casual as ordering a takeaway pizza.
(20) On the other hand, a calzone is a sandwich, while a pizza is not.