Marquees

The first shell burst in the hospital lines, and Major J.F. Donegan, the chief medical officer, who, fearing to prejudice General Yule's operations, had done nothing to inform the enemy that his marquees were the only inhabited tents, now determined to spare the wounded the horrors of further bombardment. ❋ Great Britain. War Office (1876)

Since the global financial crisis spooked bean counters and they hid the key to the petty-cash tin, seven big-name marquees have flown the coup.

This crescent is significant to Islam and is borne on the state flags and official marquees of Muslim countries from Algeria to Indonesia. ❋ Daniel Bruno Sanz (2010)

Music festivals come in all different shapes, sizes and flavors and sometimes, with the blinding laser beams from the marquees of Coachella, Lollapalooza and ACL, it's easy to forget how many great options are out there. ❋ Stephanie Keller (2011)

That could be a problem, given marquees such as UCLA, North Carolina, Connecticut and Arizona — who, collectively, made 15 Final Four appearances in the past 13 years — might miss CBS 'Madness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The marquees of Broadway will be dimmed tonight in her memory for one minute at 7 p.m. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Over each the plane swooped low, so that the photographer might make pictures of the garlanded streets, the bannered steeples, the white marquees and tents in the opens fields, prepared for Jubilee teas. ❋ Martin Rubin (2011)

Giant beige marquees have been set up to prevent antigovernment demonstrators from occupying the square. ❋ Oliver Holmes (2011)

Fabulous because the marquees light up with new shows and new names yearly and "invalid" because of yearly predictions by producers and critics of imminent doom. ❋ George Melloan (2012)

Already released in the U.K., the year's scariest movie won't see American marquees until next spring. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)

The churches should all put “The Enemy is Ignorance” in their marquees. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One day, I happened to see a series of taxis with Kick-Ass ads on their rooftop marquees. ❋ Marshall Fine (2010)

Increasingly, gallery and museum marquees, just like those at the cineplex, begin to look the same, and I realize how much the art world is being leveled by politics, globalization, satellite galleries and art fairs, as well as by the safety and allure of star power. ❋ Lance Esplund (2010)

In between lie dwellings protected from the fierce heat by canvas marquees. ❋ Meghan Cox Gurdon (2011)

Rizzo wouldn't have to worry about being clipped by a cab, thanks to Mayor Bloomberg's bike-path-happy administration: Times Square is now a pedestrian-friendly rest station aglow with jumbo LED screens, the Great White Way's new marquees. ❋ Steve Garbarino (2012)