Showplaces

Word SHOWPLACES
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Definitions and meanings of "Showplaces"

What do we mean by showplaces?

A building or estate shown for its beauty or noteworthiness.

A location kept for display only.

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The word "showplaces" in example sentences

Such a criticism cannot be leveled at the Annenberg Space for Photography -- one of Los Angeles' newest artistic showplaces. ❋ Steven Crandell (2010)

From the first, a leading university professor said, This place will be one of the showplaces of the city. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Evidence of Community Pride – Successful communities are often showplaces of care, attention, history, and heritage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

From the website: The Colorado Plateau is one of the world's great showplaces of sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rock. ❋ ReBecca Foster (2008)

The ubiquity of trash, plastic bags, garbage, debris, and refuse of all kinds in Mexico takes North Americans back a generation or two when our own streets and lanes looked more like Tobacco Road than the sterile showplaces that are the norm today. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Acceptance at avant-garde showplaces like Darmstadt came to require a degree of conformity in its way as oppressive and condescending as the court of Salzburg in Mozart's day. ❋ Kimmelman, Michael (2008)

At the federal level, programs like Energy Star are helping turn departments of stores like Sears, Costco, and Kmart into energy efficiency showplaces - a modern World's Fair in each local mall. ❋ Unknown (2008)

These homeowners regard their plots as edible showplaces, where they take guests on tours of manicured beds of baby bok choy and Japonica maize the way others show off their koi ponds and rose bushes. ❋ Ellen Gamerman (2008)

Still, a glossy new SFMoMA will make the funkier showplaces look even more, well, alternative. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Europe's luxury auto makers are building architecturally significant showplaces to market the status, history and style of their brand. ❋ Unknown (2007)

See the genteel suburbs to the west, the great houses of the North Shore, the old estates to the south, the showplaces of the Back Bay, the new apartments by the Charles River in Cambridge. ❋ David Warsh (1993)

Mr. CARVER RANDLE: In the late '40s and early' 50s, that was one of the three showplaces in the South. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It works this way: Every day, a kind of invisible Dow Jones status chart measures those with power and influence by where they sit and who is at their table in restaurants like the Four Seasons and other gastronomical showplaces. ❋ Unknown (2001)

They had been dispatched to La Leopolda, the Safra estate at Villefranche-sur-Mer, 20 minutes from Monte Carlo, one of the great showplaces on the Riviera. ❋ Dunne, Dominick (2000)

Hour after hour, the rain will fall; apartments, decorated to be showplaces, will take on the character of burrows or nests; and espresso carts, the little pumping stations of Seattle's lifeblood, will glow beneath their umbrellas like the huts of shamans. ❋ Robbins, Tom (1994)

Some schools are always going to be showplaces, other schools are going to look a little run down just because of the school but there is never any reason but there is never any reason why the school shouldn't be clean. ❋ Unknown (1990)

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