How to Use plate glass in a Sentence

plate glass

noun

• There was a full length plate glass covering the contents of the casket.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Sep. 2020
• Fire Marshal Raymond Roberts was blown through the store’s plate glass window and came to rest on the curb, 20 feet away.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2018
• The entrance bay is adorn with plate glass panels and grillwork.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 10 Feb. 2018
• The entrance doors have plate glass panels and grillwork.
  — oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2021
• Tarantino watched in amazement as the lead swung head over heels into plate glass.
  — Amy Nicholson, Town & Country, 17 Aug. 2022
• Pow, pow, pow — large plate glass windows were being smashed all around us.
  — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2019
• The snow not falling but flinging into, beating, the plate glass.
  — Sophie Lewis, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
• Drive to a building that has plate glass windows and pull in with your headlights facing the windows.
  — cleveland, 13 Apr. 2021
• Drive to a building that has plate glass windows and pull in with your headlights facing the windows.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 13 Apr. 2021
• This works even in daylight since the reflections are easily seen in the plate glass.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 13 Apr. 2021
• This works even in daylight, since the reflections are easily seen in the plate glass.
  — cleveland, 13 Apr. 2021
• The downtown streets of Lubbock were coated in glass with 80 percent of the plate glass windows shattered.
  — Heide Brandes, Chron, 19 Nov. 2021
• Just inside these doors is a very large plate glass mirror set in the wall at the right side, balancing and reflecting the stairway to the gallery.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2022
• Standing in front of the plate glass may very well be the safest place to be in a commercial building during a hurricane.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 3 Sep. 2017
• The other man then threw him through a plate glass window, according to police.
  — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 2 Dec. 2019
• Behind the plate glass, three video monitors were playing short video clips of the animals.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 24 Nov. 2020
• Police reportedly saw the man fall into a plate glass window at the ER.
  — Brian Lisik, cleveland, 21 Nov. 2021
• Johnson anchored his own (symmetrical) cube, with its black steel girders and plate glass, to the earth.
  — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 18 June 2021
• In a world ruled by the precepts of natural law and honor, Shannon would have had the right to stand up, grab this bum by the collar, and throw him through a plate glass window.
  — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2023
• Then reverse your vehicle and back into the parking space so that your rear lights are facing the plate glass windows.
  — cleveland, 13 Apr. 2021
• In Pipestone, several plate glass windows were blown in.
  — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 6 Mar. 2021
• In February 2021, Esco pushed a woman through a plate glass window.
  — Tony Aiello, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2022
• Equally compressed were his plate glass pieces, in which sheets of glass, stacked one or a few at a time, were smashed with a sledgehammer after each addition.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2021
• Luby’s massacre in Killeen, when a gunman rammed a pickup through the plate glass window and began mowing down lunch patrons.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2021
• In one episode during the dead of winter, Good tried to walk through a plate glass door several times wearing only a turtleneck and underpants.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, Longreads, 11 Jan. 2018
• Seniors in nursing homes had to visit with family through plate glass windows.
  — Allison Hope, CNN, 7 Apr. 2021
• The Rockville spa looked like other strip mall salons: plate glass windows, a tiny red awning, posters of smiling women receiving massages.
  — Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2019
• The apartment is well lighted by four large windows, two of which are of clear plate glass and the other two in art glass, representing two maidens, Summer and Autumn.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
• The motorcycle struck the concrete sidewalk curb, the worker was thrown off the motorcycle and propelled through a plate glass window of a building.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 18 May 2018
• One or two nights later a dissatisfied patron started whacking at the plate glass storefront with a hunk of plywood.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024