How to Use plate glass in a Sentence

plate glass

noun
  • Currency from around the world hangs from a plate glass where the cashier sits.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Pow, pow, pow — large plate glass windows were being smashed all around us.
    — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2019
  • The entrance bay is adorn with plate glass panels and grillwork.
    — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 10 Feb. 2018
  • Tarantino watched in amazement as the lead swung head over heels into plate glass.
    — Amy Nicholson, Town & Country, 17 Aug. 2022
  • There was a full length plate glass covering the contents of the casket.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The snow not falling but flinging into, beating, the plate glass.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The snow not falling but flinging into, beating, the plate glass.
    — Sophie Lewis, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
  • It’s all found inside a small brick building with large plate glass windows and plenty of old-school style.
    — Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
  • This works even in daylight since the reflections are easily seen in the plate glass.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The other man then threw him through a plate glass window, according to police.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 2 Dec. 2019
  • This works even in daylight, since the reflections are easily seen in the plate glass.
    — cleveland, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Drive to a building that has plate glass windows and pull in with your headlights facing the windows.
    — cleveland, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Three sides of the home are paned from floor to ceiling with plate glass for incredible sightlines to nature.
    — Miles Walls, Southern Living, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Behind the plate glass, three video monitors were playing short video clips of the animals.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Seniors in nursing homes had to visit with family through plate glass windows.
    — Allison Hope, CNN, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Johnson anchored his own (symmetrical) cube, with its black steel girders and plate glass, to the earth.
    — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 18 June 2021
  • It’s occupied by two sliders, a total of six panes of plate glass that nearly travel from floor to ceiling.
    — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 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
  • 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
  • Insulated sliding doors that are tempered will withstand heat longer than standard plate glass.
    — oregonlive, 31 Aug. 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
  • Police reportedly saw the man fall into a plate glass window at the ER.
    — Brian Lisik, cleveland, 21 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • The downtown streets of Lubbock were coated in glass with 80 percent of the plate glass windows shattered.
    — Heide Brandes, Chron, 19 Nov. 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
  • What’s behind the plate glass wraparound windows that practically reach the sidewalk, tempting passers-by to step inside and check out the goods?
    — Linda Dyett, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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