How to Use esplanade in a Sentence

esplanade

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • From the esplanade at the back of the park, the panoramic views of Montpellier were stunning.
    — Jamie Quatro, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2023
  • The esplanade connecting the campus to the city of Kent will be expanded.
    — Karen Farkas, cleveland.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • It was razed and turned into a grassy esplanade called Centennial Park.
    — Ben Ryder Howe, Curbed, 7 Aug. 2024
  • As with East River Park, acres of landfill would be added to create a vast green esplanade.
    — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The kings, Chauvet explained, would simply cross the esplanade to come and attend Mass.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Dec. 2019
  • The kings, Chauvet explained, would simply cross the esplanade to come and attend Mass.
    — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Archery will be hosted on the esplanade at Invalides, and cyclers will ride along the Champs-Elysées.
    — Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Archery will be hosted on the esplanade at Invalides, and cyclers will ride along the Champs-Elysées.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Archery will be hosted on the esplanade at Invalides, and cyclers will ride along the Champs-Elysées.
    — Janine Puhak, PEOPLE.com, 23 July 2021
  • 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
  • The move also opened up views of the Brooklyn Bridge from the East River esplanade.
    — John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2020
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • The Costa Deliziosa cruise ship nearly smashed into an esplanade and a yacht in Venice on Sunday.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 9 July 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 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
  • 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
  • Dumpling Time, bordering the Chase Center esplanade, was the first to open during the pandemic.
    — Rusty Simmons, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • 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 19th-century sailing ship with authentic rigging was built in a parking lot outside their Toronto studio, with an ice esplanade to get up to it.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Though the city promised that the park’s trees, athletic fields and waterfront esplanade would be restored and improved in tandem with the new protective landscape, controversy raged on.
    — James S. Russell, Bloomberg, 13 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Battery Park City Authority Battery Park City's lower esplanade will remain as is, while plazas and parks will see a redesign and new landscaping.
    — Jessica Moore, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026

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