How to Use public square in a Sentence

public square

noun
Definition of public squarenext
  • Just the danger of moving a body through a public square like that.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 24 June 2024
  • Section of town where lots of people gather close to public square, close to the game.
    — Staff Reports, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Foreign actors aren’t the only threats to a free and open public square.
    — Laura Rosenberger, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Join them, and take in a handful of key attractions at this sizable public square.
    — Samia Qaiyum, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 July 2024
  • Many families slept in public squares, on beaches or in their cars.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 29 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The street work is to improve safety for bikers, pedestrians and drivers, while Phillips Plaza is a new public square near the Baird Center.
    — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The Woodcock Foundation is a funder of Headway’s public square.
    — Megan Kimble, New York Times, 31 May 2024
  • The Woodcock Foundation is a funder of Headway’s public square.
    — Aidan Gardiner, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Now, Musk is reimagining Twitter’s public square in his own image.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The local Safeway — which serves as the town’s de facto public square, especially in the hot summer months — is seeing a run on prepared meals.
    — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 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
  • At its best, social media was also a democratic marketplace of ideas or the online public square.
    — Jeffrey Edell, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2023
  • On Saturday, a Russian attack on a public square in the northern city of Chernihiv killed at least seven people, including a child.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Many of the film’s scenes unfold to the rhythm of a speeding train or a rolling suitcase, as Valeria, cell phone in hand, watches the scenery rush by, wanders unfamiliar streets, and joins a pro-Ukraine rally in a public square.
    — Nicola Fegg, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Grupo Frontera joins a long list of national and international artists who have set foot in the second-largest public square in the world, only behind Tiananmen in Beijing.
    — Natalia Cano, Billboard, 23 Aug. 2023
  • While clearly a twist on monuments that preside over public squares, the figure was smartly placed near a shady grove of tamarisk trees on a sandy trail in Desert Hot Springs, where an actual horse and rider might seek shelter.
    — Jori Finkel, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2023
  • After almost two years of planning and delays, Gilroy has begun construction on a project to transform a back alley into a public square for pedestrians.
    — Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024
  • And since everyone today communicates online, that's a public square that has to be available to everyone.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Meanwhile, technology giants, which have allowed for harmful content to gain a foothold in the digital public square, are thriving.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Believers ward off the malevolent spirits by making as much noise as possible, thronging public squares to a thunderous soundtrack of singing and drumming.
    — Ashlea Halpern, TIME, 25 July 2024
  • The Jew-hatred across these fruited plains on many campuses and public squares puts the lie to the idea that anti-Israel arguments are legitimate and not the focus of generalized antisemitism.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Twitter is a vital dataset for understanding how the internet works and what conversations are being had in the notional global public square.
    — WIRED, 10 Mar. 2023
  • And even if dissenters could crowd public squares in large numbers, large-scale protests are by no means guaranteed to topple Putin, given that authoritarian regimes can generally ride out such movements.
    — Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
  • That would grant researchers, journalists, judges, civil society, and policymakers more power to play their essential roles in shaping a healthy public square.
    — TIME, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Texas solicitor general Aaron Nielson had a similar argument (pdf), but likened social media to a public square.
    — Laura Bratton, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Amid our gripes and widespread distrust, social media serves as a new public square, where news develops, leaders debate and users form potentially lifesaving connections.
    — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Their families have campaigned relentlessly to secure their release, including taking over a public square opposite the defense ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, and marching 40 miles from the city to the prime minister's office in Jerusalem.
    — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Readers voted on a list of 20 public squares that were nominated by a panel of experts as the best in the US, not just for their aesthetic value, but also their historical significance and communal importance, according to 10Best.
    — Amy Huschka, Detroit Free Press, 17 Apr. 2024

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