How to Use public square in a Sentence

public square

noun
  • People stood in long lines in public squares to sign.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 May 2026
  • Our public square is loud, diverse and free.
    — Haley Ott, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Our public square is loud, diverse, and free.
    — Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Just the danger of moving a body through a public square like that.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 24 June 2024
  • Foreign actors aren’t the only threats to a free and open public square.
    — Laura Rosenberger, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Many families slept in public squares, on beaches or in their cars.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Section of town where lots of people gather close to public square, close to the game.
    — Staff Reports, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2023
  • There are, of course, American cities with public squares.
    — Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Join them, and take in a handful of key attractions at this sizable public square.
    — Samia Qaiyum, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 July 2024
  • But a big, beautiful, and sometimes messy public square that belongs to us all.
    — Yolanda Watson Spiva, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Tens of thousands of fans gathered at a public square in Oslo to give the squad a roaring send-off.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
  • Guests begin to see that in the artwork leading to the dining area, which is built to look like a cozy public square.
    — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2024
  • The blaze did not invoke the same gut-dropping panic of gunshots in a crowded public square.
    — Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 3 June 2025
  • But if book fairs are the engine room of publishing, festivals are its public square.
    — Julie Finch, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Thousands more have been left homeless, with survivors sleeping in public squares, shelters or parks.
    — Manuel Rueda, NPR, 27 June 2026
  • Now, Musk is reimagining Twitter’s public square in his own image.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
  • These types of content moderation would protect, rather than censor, free speech in the modern public squares.
    — Filippo Menczer, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2024
  • In one of the most chilling images of the massacre, dozens of corpses executed by the police were lined up on the ground in a public square.
    — Evandro Cruz Silva, The Dial, 10 Feb. 2026
  • At its best, social media was also a democratic marketplace of ideas or the online public square.
    — Jeffrey Edell, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2023
  • Some of the world’s best skateboarders will take over one of Paris’ largest public squares at the 2024 Olympics.
    — Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2024
  • Mendler was fascinated with it—Twitter in particular—and its role as the new public square.
    — ArsTechnica, 11 June 2025
  • One gathering became a face-off against a sea of British unionists, who were amassing in a public square in Glasgow.
    — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2024
  • Twitter, now called X, has become an unfiltered public square for discourse like this, and there are pros and cons to having such an open debate.
    — John Brandon, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Dubbed Place des Montréalaises, the project transforms a sunken highway into a vibrant public square.
    — New Atlas, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Visiting a bustling public square in Europe or Asia, by contrast, requires no money.
    — Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025
  • To be locked away for decades was not, in his eyes, more humane than being torn apart in a public square—though Damiens himself might have had a different opinion.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The global public square has been getting coarser for years, and social media has played a big part in the deterioration.
    — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 1 June 2026
  • There will also be corresponding action in basketball’s public square.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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

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