ARCADE in a Sentence

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17 example sentences for ARCADE, such as:

1. In the arcade they met Varenka herself.
2. Joannes, in the Palais Royal, arcade Pierre, No.
3. Three arcades were before them, and the middle one was used as a door.
4. The officer in the scarf dismounted, called up a drummer, and went with him into the arcade.
5. I thought I saw you pass once, while I was reading the newspapers under the arcade of the Odeon.

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 Meanings and Examples of ARCADE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
arcade
 n.  covered passageway, usually lined with shops; simple arched opening in a wall; vault or vaulted place
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  They were walking on one side of the arcade, trying to avoid Levin, who was walking on the other side.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 31
2  In the arcade they met Varenka herself.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 34
3  When they passed through the passage beside Kildare house they found many students sheltering under the arcade of the library.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
4  Lord Henry passed up the low arcade into Burlington Street and turned his steps in the direction of Berkeley Square.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
5  The first thing which struck him in this paddock was a door of the sixteenth century, which here simulates an arcade, everything else having fallen prostrate around it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
6  I thought I saw you pass once, while I was reading the newspapers under the arcade of the Odeon.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY
7  Joannes, in the Palais Royal, arcade Pierre, No.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 44. The Vendetta.
8  The officer in the scarf dismounted, called up a drummer, and went with him into the arcade.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXI
9  Three arcades were before them, and the middle one was used as a door.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 37. The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian.
10  A man was seated with his elbow leaning on the column, and was reading with his back turned to the arcades, through the openings of which the new-comers contemplated him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 37. The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian.
11  She had found one man in the prairie village who did not appreciate her picture of winding streets and arcades, but she had assembled the town council and dramatically defeated him.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
12  A town in California which had changed itself from the barren brick fronts and slatternly frame sheds of a Main Street to a way which led the eye down a vista of arcades and gardens.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  It was a wet day; it had been raining all the morning, and the invalids, with their parasols, had flocked into the arcades.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 31
14  The sudden flashes of colour reminded him of the gleam of the opal-and-iris-throated birds that flutter round the tall honeycombed Campanile, or stalk, with such stately grace, through the dim, dust-stained arcades.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
15  They all opened on a tolerably vast hall, paved with large flagstones, cut up by arcades and pillars, where only a tiny light and great shadows were visible.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA
Example Sentence:
1  The arcade was popular with shoppers because it gave them protection from the summer sun and the winter rain.