How to Use forecourt in a Sentence

forecourt

noun
  • There’s a body on a gas station forecourt.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Grégoire did not say which parts of the forecourt would be reopened, or when.
    — Elian Peltier, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2020
  • Each face has been hand drawn by Emin, cast in bronze, and fixed to the entrance in the gallery’s new forecourt.
    — Riann Phillip, Vogue, 1 July 2023
  • The two oldest handprints and footprints are in the center of the forecourt.
    — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022
  • The forecourt is a mess of commuters competing for taxis and minivans.
    — Kurt Johnson, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Sep. 2024
  • There's space for 8 cars in the garage, and another 12 in the forecourt.
    — Natalie Hoberman, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • The proximity of away fans, the bustling forecourt.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • It is located in front of the forecourt of the cathedral, which was a common layout at the time.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • This means that people are already holding onto their cars for six, seven or even eight years fresh from the forecourt.
    — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 2 May 2024
  • While Paris waits for its iconic landmark to reopen, a smaller chapel could be installed in the forecourt.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2020
  • For weeks, workers have been cleaning the toxic lead dust from its forecourt and working to restore the edifice.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 18 June 2019
  • But Zverev’s finishing skills, particularly in the forecourt and at the net, are still hit or miss.
    — New York Times, 3 June 2022
  • The cathedral has been so central to France that its forecourt is ground zero from which all distances in the nation are measured.
    — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
  • In Ryazan, Russia, video shows a fight breaking out near a forecourt as drivers waited for fuel.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
  • An open courtyard at the center provides space for temporary events, while a paved forecourt doubles as a gathering area.
    — New Atlas, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Visitors arrive by circular driveway at the forecourt on the west side of the house and see a red-tile, hip roof and a tower where the two wings meet.
    — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • The forecourt was demolished in 1954 to make way for a parking lot, since replaced by a fountain and plaza.
    — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • An official notice will then be posted on an easel in the Buckingham Palace forecourt.
    — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • That allowed Dickinson to quickly bring the ball into the forecourt, and Creek was whistled on a foul away from the ball.
    — Ted Dunnam, Houston Chronicle, 12 Jan. 2018
  • The cathedral, its adjacent park and its forecourt have been closed to the public since April 15 and are likely to stay that way for years.
    — Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
  • His final engagement was on the forecourt of Buckingham Palace.
    — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Visitors approaching the museum’s doors will pass under a canopy of silver birch trees installed in its forecourt.
    — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 14 May 2026
  • The ceiling of the mosque’s forecourt supposedly resembled Mike’s brown hair.
    — Peter Christensen, Smithsonian, 24 Apr. 2018
  • For the first time since a tragic fire swept through Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral, its forecourt has now opened to the public.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2020
  • Set back from the street wall, the facade leans over a narrow, gated forecourt with benches where elderly neighbors sometimes stop to take a breather and keep an eye on the block.
    — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The sensitive planting of trees in a variety of shapes, forms, colors and sizes draws you away from the harsh stone of the forecourt and into the softer world of nature.
    — Nel-Olivia Waga, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • Summerfest will have a new pizza vendor, Pizza Man, in the forecourt to the amphitheater.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 June 2019
  • Made from solid stainless steel, the work is not in the Met show — it’s installed in the forecourt of the Bourse de Commerce in Paris.
    — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Notre Dame Cathedral’s forecourt opened up to the public for the first time since the devastating fire of April 15 last year.
    — USA TODAY, 8 June 2020
  • The ceremony was to be followed by a concert in the church’s forecourt dedicated to the firefighters who saved the church and the workers who helped rebuild it.
    — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 7 Dec. 2024

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