How to Use esplanade in a Sentence

esplanade

noun

• In the 1960s, the fountain was moved off the esplanade to a new Fountain Square at Fifth and Vine streets.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 22 Apr. 2022
• The move also opened up views of the Brooklyn Bridge from the East River esplanade.
  — John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2020
• And money left over to repair the library and put in a new esplanade along the shore of the Arctic Ocean.
  — New York Times, 22 Oct. 2021
• Garbage skittered along an esplanade that smelled of sewage.
  — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
• From the esplanade at the back of the park, the panoramic views of Montpellier were stunning.
  — Jamie Quatro, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2023
• Tens of thousands of worshippers had gathered to pray on the esplanade between the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque.
  — Raja Shehadeh, The New Yorker, 11 May 2021
• But the tram is no more: visitors now have to walk about 10 minutes from the parking area to get to the esplanade.
  — Juliana Shallcross, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 May 2021
• Archery will be hosted on the esplanade at Invalides, and cyclers will ride along the Champs-Elysées.
  — Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 11 Aug. 2021
• The esplanade connecting the campus to the city of Kent will be expanded.
  — Karen Farkas, cleveland.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• The kings, Chauvet explained, would simply cross the esplanade to come and attend Mass.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Dec. 2019
• Stroll or take a tram to St Kilda Beach, get your toes wet, and then wander through the edgy boutiques and the street market on the esplanade.
  — Fortune, 13 Feb. 2018
• As with East River Park, acres of landfill would be added to create a vast green esplanade.
  — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2021
• Spaniards watched as Franco’s family took the casket down the ten steps leading to the esplanade, with their lawyer and the prior.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2019
• The police used a drone to drop tear gas on them, sending crowds of people scattering across the esplanade.
  — Joseph Krauss, ajc, 22 Apr. 2022
• The Costa Deliziosa cruise ship nearly smashed into an esplanade and a yacht in Venice on Sunday.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 9 July 2019
• But much of the meeting centered around the narrow stretch of shoreline and esplanade that sits between the Hawthorne Bridge and Marquam Bridge on the eastside.
  — Andrew Theen, OregonLive.com, 7 June 2017
• While tickets will be required for prime viewing spots, watching from the esplanade along the river will be free to all.
  — Lindsey Tramuta, Travel + Leisure, 12 Nov. 2023
• Dumpling Time, bordering the Chase Center esplanade, was the first to open during the pandemic.
  — Rusty Simmons, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Sep. 2021
• The project will also open access to Mott Haven’s waterfront for the first time in a century with a public park and esplanade.
  — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 29 Dec. 2021
• The worst of the standing water sits directly above and around the top of the tunnel, alongside an esplanade designed to highlight the river view.
  — Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 21 July 2019
• Explore: The esplanade provides a perfect backdrop to evening strolls.
  — Anne Farrar, National Geographic, 19 June 2019
• The garden features a Japanese pond and garden as well as an esplanade lined with some of its 200 cherry trees.
  — Beth J. Harpaz, Houston Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
• The position would place him in charge of the police, the prison systems and the al-Aqsa Mosque esplanade, a site that has served for decades as a flash point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
• Windsong Ranch has over 30 miles of wide walking, hike-and-bike trails, pocket parks, large event lawns and esplanades, a full disc golf course, mountain bike course and large stocked lakes.
  — Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2020
• Israeli police used a drone to drop tear gas on them, sending crowds of people scattering across the esplanade.
  — Ilan Ben Zion, ajc, 24 Apr. 2022
• Palestinians threw rocks and fireworks, and police fired tear gas and stun grenades on the sprawling esplanade surrounding the mosque.
  — Joseph Krauss, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2022
• Tens of thousands of people cheered Francis at an open air Mass in late morning at an esplanade along the port city's waterfront.
  — Fox News, 15 Sep. 2018
• For decades, Houstonians have gathered on the esplanades to have their pictures taken under the thick canopy of decades-old live oaks.
  — Diane Cowen, Houston Chronicle, 12 Dec. 2017
• But the delicate status quo has been tested by an increase in Jewish prayer on the esplanade in recent years.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2023
• After the whirlwind tour of Paris, runners will come into the final few miles and the finish line awaits them at the wide and open esplanade housing a collection of buildings referred to as Les Invalides.
  — Melanie Mitchell, Outside Online, 10 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024