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a
: a public square in a city or town
b
: an open area usually located near urban buildings and often featuring walkways, trees and shrubs, places to sit, and sometimes shops
2
: a place on a thoroughfare (such as a turnpike) at which all traffic must temporarily stop (as to pay tolls)
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: an area adjacent to an expressway which has service facilities (such as a restaurant, gas station, and restrooms)
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Examples of plaza in a Sentence
They put his statue in the town's plaza.
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For acts such as Skaggs and The Oak Ridge Boys, among many others, a nondescript office plaza in Music City's Hendersonville suburb has fostered country's bluegrass and gospel roots for generations.
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Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 9 Aug. 2025
In Córdoba, colonial chapels cast long shadows across warm sandstone plazas, while Mendoza stirs slowly beneath the crystalline melt of the Andes—its sprawling vineyards glowing gold in the slanting afternoon light.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Kansas City, Kansas’s Children’s Mercy Park — in partnership with architecture firm Populous and Turner Construction — is building a 90,000 square-foot outdoor plaza to host concerts, game-day fun and other community events, said Rob Thomson, Sporting KC’s spokesperson in an email.
—Sofia Zeman, Kansas City Star, 29 July 2025
Construction is also ongoing on the west portion of Georgia Street, directly outside the Signia, which remains closed to cars as the city converts it to a pedestrian-friendly plaza that resembles a park.
—Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 29 July 2025
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Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 9 Aug. 2025
In Córdoba, colonial chapels cast long shadows across warm sandstone plazas, while Mendoza stirs slowly beneath the crystalline melt of the Andes—its sprawling vineyards glowing gold in the slanting afternoon light.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Kansas City, Kansas’s Children’s Mercy Park — in partnership with architecture firm Populous and Turner Construction — is building a 90,000 square-foot outdoor plaza to host concerts, game-day fun and other community events, said Rob Thomson, Sporting KC’s spokesperson in an email.
—Sofia Zeman, Kansas City Star, 29 July 2025
Construction is also ongoing on the west portion of Georgia Street, directly outside the Signia, which remains closed to cars as the city converts it to a pedestrian-friendly plaza that resembles a park.
—Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 29 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for plaza
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“Plaza.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plaza. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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