(n.) A beach; a strand; in the plains and deserts of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, a broad, level spot, on which subsequently becomes dry by evaporation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Doubles from €60 B&B Hotel Las Palmas, Carboneras Playa de los Muertos.
(2) Playa Caleta, the main city beach, swings around the bay, a block in front, though modern high-rises cause you to play hide and seek with sea views.
(3) • Doubles from $113 B&B, no phone, ventanasalmarcozumel.com Fusion, Playa del Carmen Facebook Twitter Pinterest Years ago, most of Playa’s hippie beach bars and hostels converted to slicker, louder operations.
(4) Protein variation in 182 Sylvilagus floridanus from 19 playa basins in Castro Co., Texas was examined using starch-gel electrophoresis.
(5) The prospect of retiring to the sunny hills of Provence or the playas of Spain is less attractive since the EU referendum, with older voters concerned their healthcare would no longer be covered post-Brexit, a survey has found.
(6) Named for the whiskered nurse sharks ( gatas ) that once were common in these waters, Playa Las Gatas offers white sand, and spectacular snorkelling.
(7) • Paseo Marítimo Pedregal 17, Playa Pedregal, +34 952 29 15 95, restauranteelcabra.es Bodega Bar El Pimpi El Pimpi is a Málaga institution.
(8) For the less ambitious, there is the spectacular playa Los Muertos , well worth the pleasant 1km amble down a track off the Agua Amarga-Carboneras road.
(9) Two species of hematozoa, Haemoproteus columbae and H. sacharovi, were observed on thin blood smears from populations of mourning doves (Zenaida macroura) in the Rolling Plains (RP, a semiarid dryland farming and grazing area) and Southern High Plains (SHP, an intensively cultivated and irrigated agricultural region with playa lakes) of western Texas (USA).
(10) Here’s Los Parientes de Playa Vicente with La Lloroncita.
(11) Photograph: Lois Pryce I love Bertha’s Café on Playa el Burro .
(12) Visit the Musa underwater sculpture , swim alongside whale sharks or dolphins or simply chill on one of the island’s northern or western beaches, such as wonderful Playa Norte.
(13) Keen123 Playa Las Gatas: a watery Jesus Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy Playa Las Gatas, three miles south of the Zihuatanejo on the Pacific coast, is accessible only by boat or a treacherous pathway, so getting there always seems like an adventure.
(14) • Dive centres include: isub, San Jose, isubsanjose.com (all year); Buceo Las Negras, buceolasnegras.com (all year); Clear Kayak, Playa San José, clearkayak.es (July-September) WHERE TO EAT Casa Puga, Almería Facebook Twitter Pinterest Casa Puga restaurant.
(15) Twenty larval tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum) were collected from a playa lake in West Texas and maintained in the laboratory for 7 days prior to the beginning of position training.
(16) He wrote “Playa Escondida” (hidden beach) on a piece of paper and I thought: “I’ve got to go!” I carried that bit of paper with me for ages.
(17) The playlist Facebook Twitter Pinterest A-list playlist for songs from or about Mexico and Central America Willie Nelson and Carlos Santana – They All Went to Mexico Molotov – Frijolero The Four Tops – Loco in Acapulco Los de Abajo – El Loco Chavela Vargas – Vámonos Los Parientes de Playa Vicente – La Lloroncita The Garifuna Collective – Mongulu Café Guancasco – Informe Estadístico de Comienzos de Siglo Peter, Paul and Mary – El Salvador Insane – El Salvador Carlos Mejía Godoy – Nicaragua, Nicaragüita Rubén Blades – Pedro Navaja
(18) A 10-minute drive away is the dramatic, naturist beach Playa de los Muertos.
(19) Hacienda Eden, Playa Troncones, Guerrero The name is not an idle boast: commanding a spot in the middle of gorgeous Manzanillo Bay, 22 miles north of Zihuatanejo, Hacienda Eden’s 10 rooms and four bungalows fill primarily with repeat guests.
(20) Nei's genetic distance between populations ranged from 0.20 to 0.388 and a significant association between genetic distance and linear geographic distance among playas was found.
Plaza
Definition:
(n.) A public square in a city or town.
Example Sentences:
(1) The following year, JFK was killed in Dealey Plaza, becoming the lost father to a grieving nation.
(2) The 1,127 killed at Rana Plaza in the Dhaka suburb of Savar are among at least 1,800 Bangladesh garment-industry workers killed in fires or building collapses since 2005.
(3) "Anniversaries should be to celebrate good things, not something like Rana Plaza."
(4) After years of foot dragging, three global agreements have emerged in an attempt to improve matters since the Rana Plaza tragedy in April.
(5) WEEKEND GETAWAY Côte d'Azur TO CELEBRATE THAT DEAL The spring tasting menu at Alain Ducasse's restaurant at the Plaza Athénée will set you back €360 ($520).
(6) Last year retailers sourcing garments from Bangladesh faced similar calls to quit the country following the collapse of the Rana Plaza building.
(7) Women also make up the majority of the 5,000 people – disabled survivors and families of victims – who are still owed compensation by the brands that used Rana Plaza.
(8) This week, another UK event will focus on those left in poverty by Rana Plaza.
(9) A day after making a personal appeal to the US and Cuban leaders to end their half-century of estrangement , Francis issued his plea to Colombia’s warring factions from Revolution Plaza at the end of his Sunday mass.
(10) Clothing retailers River Island and Matalan have signed up to a factory safety deal in Bangladesh after pressure from campaigners in the wake of the Rana Plaza factory collapse, which killed more than 1,000 factory workers.
(11) Many debate where the blame lies for tragedies such as Rana Plaza, and argue over who has the responsibility to prevent them in the future.
(12) Women whose children and grandchildren had disappeared organized themselves as Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo to search for their missing loved ones.
(13) At about 10.30pm last night we received multiple calls about shots being fired from inside the plaza,” police chief John Mina told reporters.
(14) This is why it’s so important to name those responsible and not leave it as if this is an a-historic massacre.” Zedconte, 26, works as a consultant in Guadalajara Protest reach Plaza de la Liberacion in Guadalajara Protestors sit around an improvised podium where student victims and missing names where remembered.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Shahorbanu, whose son Siddique was killed in the Rana Plaza collapse.
(16) On Saturday afternoons there is outdoor dancing at nearby Plaza de Danzón.
(17) The independent Plaza Art Cinema is a favourite of Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne.
(18) She said Trump made advances on her, including groping her under the table during a dinner the following night at the Plaza Hotel.
(19) Two years after Rana Plaza, have conditions approved in Bangladesh’s factories?
(20) Prior to Rana Plaza there had already been a string of disasters in Bangladesh’s garment industry, culminating in the Tazreen factory fire that killed 112 people six months earlier.