How to Use plate glass in a Sentence
plate glass
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There was a full length plate glass covering the contents of the casket.
—Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Sep. 2020
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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
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The entrance bay is adorn with plate glass panels and grillwork.
—Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 10 Feb. 2018
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The entrance doors have plate glass panels and grillwork.
—oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2021
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Tarantino watched in amazement as the lead swung head over heels into plate glass.
—Amy Nicholson, Town & Country, 17 Aug. 2022
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Pow, pow, pow — large plate glass windows were being smashed all around us.
—Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2019
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The snow not falling but flinging into, beating, the plate glass.
—Sophie Lewis, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
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Drive to a building that has plate glass windows and pull in with your headlights facing the windows.
—cleveland, 13 Apr. 2021
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Drive to a building that has plate glass windows and pull in with your headlights facing the windows.
—Annie Lane, oregonlive, 13 Apr. 2021
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This works even in daylight since the reflections are easily seen in the plate glass.
—Annie Lane, oregonlive, 13 Apr. 2021
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This works even in daylight, since the reflections are easily seen in the plate glass.
—cleveland, 13 Apr. 2021
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The downtown streets of Lubbock were coated in glass with 80 percent of the plate glass windows shattered.
—Heide Brandes, Chron, 19 Nov. 2021
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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
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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
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The other man then threw him through a plate glass window, according to police.
—Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 2 Dec. 2019
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Behind the plate glass, three video monitors were playing short video clips of the animals.
—Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 24 Nov. 2020
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Police reportedly saw the man fall into a plate glass window at the ER.
—Brian Lisik, cleveland, 21 Nov. 2021
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Johnson anchored his own (symmetrical) cube, with its black steel girders and plate glass, to the earth.
—Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 18 June 2021
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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
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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
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In Pipestone, several plate glass windows were blown in.
—Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 6 Mar. 2021
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In February 2021, Esco pushed a woman through a plate glass window.
—Tony Aiello, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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Seniors in nursing homes had to visit with family through plate glass windows.
—Allison Hope, CNN, 7 Apr. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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