Sentence Examples

1. Hostile gunfire from the boardwalk arcade prevented them from falling back to the beach to escape, and they could not move forward up Pacific Avenue for the same reason.
2. When the count thought Franz had gazed sufficiently on this picturesque tableau, he raised his finger to his lips, to warn him to be silent, and, ascending the three steps which led to the corridor of the columbarium, entered the chamber by the middle arcade, and advanced towards Vampa, who was so intent on the book before him that he did not hear the noise of his footsteps.
3. The first entrance to the cavern was by a moderate descent, above which distorted rocks formed a weird arcade the interior, very uneven and dangerous from the inequalities of the vault, was subdivided into several compartments, which communicated with each other by means of rough and jagged steps, fixed right and left, in uncouth natural pillars.
4. They heard, too, the pleasant mingled notes of a variety of instruments, flutes, drums, psalteries, pipes, tabors, and timbrels, and as they drew near they perceived that the trees of a leafy arcade that had been constructed at the entrance of the town were filled with lights unaffected by the wind, for the breeze at the time was so gentle that it had not power to stir the leaves on the trees.
5. Through the doorway to the arcade, a television on the wall broadcast footage from the earlier press conference with the Mayor.
6. We hovered alongside the cars on a crowded street where people swarmed in and out of a glass-fronted shopping arcade alight with bright-coloured holographic images.
7. I took control, steering myself away from the arcade, past the green expanse of a city park, and into a cluster of towering office buildings.