How to Use arcade in a Sentence

arcade

noun
  • Donation bins are stationed throughout the arcade as well.
    Savana Dunning, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024
  • One housed a craft brewery; another had been converted into an ax-throwing gym; a third housed a bar with an arcade and board games.
    New York Times, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Other images in the Facebook post show an arcade, a basketball court and a concrete staircase.
    Nayeli Lomeli, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2021
  • If bowling isn't your game, try your hand at shuffleboard, life-size Jenga, pool, or revisit your childhood with some old-school arcade games.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 31 Dec. 2021
  • While not the first video game—or even the first to be presented in an upright, arcade-style cabinet—Pong was the first to be commercially successful.
    IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Gary, who’s constantly coming up with entrepreneurial side-hustles, starts a waterbed business that somehow becomes a pinball arcade by the movie’s end.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Censors forced Gogol to change the cathedral to a shopping arcade, on grounds of blasphemy—an example of how the story can co-opt any reader into its ridiculous universe.
    Hedley Twidle, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Guests will love the arcade/game room, bike rental, and art gallery.
    Stacey Lastoe, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2023
  • An area arcade and bar has found a new home in Sharonville.
    Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 4 May 2022
  • The rink also hosts an arcade, a prize shop, and a café.
    Amaris Encinas, The Arizona Republic, 17 June 2022
  • Bring the fun of the arcade home with this miniature claw machine.
    Ni'kesia Pannell, Woman's Day, 3 Nov. 2022
  • There are t-shirts for sale, arcade games, and art enclosed in the tiny and cozy space.
    cleveland, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Bring the arcade to your home with this air hockey set.
    Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Enter through the marble-floored arcade to reach the entrance to the high-ceilinged space.
    Shana Clarke, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Come out to Stars and Strikes for arcade games or bowling for a great cause.
    Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 1 June 2022
  • The bar has a separate pool room and arcade room with games.
    The Courier-Journal, 18 July 2022
  • Ready Player 1 Games, will lend their pinball and arcade games to the event.
    Laura Latzko, The Arizona Republic, 28 July 2022
  • The Johnny Rockets on the main midway is closed and is now an arcade.
    Craig Webb, The Enquirer, 2 May 2023
  • The floor that Sam knelt on was carpeted like an ’80s arcade.
    New York Times, 17 July 2022
  • Boy and girl played Galaga late at night at the small arcade around the corner from boy’s apartment.
    Jen Kim, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2023
  • There’s also a cafe, a bar and lounge, and an arcade with classic and current games.
    Shannon Sutlief, Dallas News, 26 May 2023
  • Inside, the racers took in the two-story course, amid the flashing lights and clangs of a jumbo arcade.
    Vera Carothers, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The arcade of the Marcia is now dry, but the same water still feeds mountain springs east of the capital.
    David Laskin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2024
  • Video game junkies can get their fix in the ginormous arcade and those who love the water can hit the pool on a bumper boats ride.
    Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • My mom raised us the majority of the time, and my dad tried to bond via trips to the arcade on random weekends.
    The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
  • The arcade machines were working, the kids were in the ball pit, so that was definitely a highlight of the shoot, for sure.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Plus, check out a country music venue, an arcade bar, dives and more.
    Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The Heroes in a Half-shell take to the streets in this arcade-style action side-scroller inspired by the 1987 cartoon series.
    Richard Newby, Time, 27 Nov. 2022
  • After bowling, walk next door to Fun Depot for the arcade, go-karts and laser tag.
    Kari Barnett, Sun Sentinel, 20 July 2024
  • Hang out around the carnival games or arcade and save the roller coaster for after birth.
    Sarah Bradley, Parents, 22 July 2024

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