How to Use public square in a Sentence

public square

noun

• Section of town where lots of people gather close to public square, close to the game.
  — Staff Reports, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2023
• Foreign actors aren’t the only threats to a free and open public square.
  — Laura Rosenberger, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
• On a public square in Nanterre, a young man of Senegalese descent said France would learn little from the latest unrest.
  — Cara Anna, ajc, 3 July 2023
• The street work is to improve safety for bikers, pedestrians and drivers, while Phillips Plaza is a new public square near the Baird Center.
  — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
• The Woodcock Foundation is a funder of Headway’s public square.
  — Aidan Gardiner, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• The Woodcock Foundation is a funder of Headway’s public square.
  — Megan Kimble, New York Times, 31 May 2024
• Now, Musk is reimagining Twitter’s public square in his own image.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
• The local Safeway — which serves as the town’s de facto public square, especially in the hot summer months — is seeing a run on prepared meals.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
• Videos posted on social media since Wednesday appeared to show lines of bodies in shrouds in the village's public square awaiting burial.
  — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 6 June 2024
• At its best, social media was also a democratic marketplace of ideas or the online public square.
  — Jeffrey Edell, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2023
• On Saturday, a Russian attack on a public square in the northern city of Chernihiv killed at least seven people, including a child.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
• Many of the film’s scenes unfold to the rhythm of a speeding train or a rolling suitcase, as Valeria, cell phone in hand, watches the scenery rush by, wanders unfamiliar streets, and joins a pro-Ukraine rally in a public square.
  — Nicola Fegg, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
• Grupo Frontera joins a long list of national and international artists who have set foot in the second-largest public square in the world, only behind Tiananmen in Beijing.
  — Natalia Cano, Billboard, 23 Aug. 2023
• While clearly a twist on monuments that preside over public squares, the figure was smartly placed near a shady grove of tamarisk trees on a sandy trail in Desert Hot Springs, where an actual horse and rider might seek shelter.
  — Jori Finkel, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2023
• After almost two years of planning and delays, Gilroy has begun construction on a project to transform a back alley into a public square for pedestrians.
  — Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024
• And since everyone today communicates online, that's a public square that has to be available to everyone.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024
• Meanwhile, technology giants, which have allowed for harmful content to gain a foothold in the digital public square, are thriving.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024
• The Jew-hatred across these fruited plains on many campuses and public squares puts the lie to the idea that anti-Israel arguments are legitimate and not the focus of generalized antisemitism.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2024
• Twitter is a vital dataset for understanding how the internet works and what conversations are being had in the notional global public square.
  — WIRED, 10 Mar. 2023
• That would grant researchers, journalists, judges, civil society, and policymakers more power to play their essential roles in shaping a healthy public square.
  — TIME, 17 Oct. 2023
• Texas solicitor general Aaron Nielson had a similar argument (pdf), but likened social media to a public square.
  — Laura Bratton, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2024
• Amid our gripes and widespread distrust, social media serves as a new public square, where news develops, leaders debate and users form potentially lifesaving connections.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
• Their families have campaigned relentlessly to secure their release, including taking over a public square opposite the defense ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, and marching 40 miles from the city to the prime minister's office in Jerusalem.
  — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 24 Nov. 2023
• But if there aren’t enough guardrails, the government – whether a Democratic or Republican administration – could have too much power to influence debate in a public square dominated by social media.
  — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2024
• The goal is to create a public square for communities on Instagram that never really embraced Twitter and for communities on Twitter (and other platforms) that are interested in a less angry place for conversations, but not all of Twitter.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 7 July 2023
• Both conservatives and liberals are convinced their posts are being censored; meanwhile, tech companies are under fire for making unaccountable decisions that affect the global public square.
  — Billy Perrigo, TIME, 15 Apr. 2024
• But the tragic incident raised fresh questions over safety in the American public square — and whether the proliferation of gun violence is rendering large-scale gatherings untenable for many, especially parents fearful for their children’s safety.
  — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Sep 2024