How to Use forecourt in a Sentence

forecourt

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  • The two oldest handprints and footprints are in the center of the forecourt.
    — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022
  • The finished work will be installed outdoors in Venice, in the forecourt of the U.S. pavilion.
    — The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Grégoire did not say which parts of the forecourt would be reopened, or when.
    — Elian Peltier, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2020
  • Made from solid stainless steel, the work is not in the Met show — it’s installed in the forecourt of the Bourse de Commerce in Paris.
    — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
  • For the first time since a tragic fire swept through Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral, its forecourt has now opened to the public.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2020
  • Notre Dame Cathedral’s forecourt opened up to the public for the first time since the devastating fire of April 15 last year.
    — USA TODAY, 8 June 2020
  • Two landed in parks and one in a shopping center forecourt.
    — New York Times, 10 July 2022
  • The cathedral, its adjacent park and its forecourt have been closed to the public since April 15 and are likely to stay that way for years.
    — Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The forecourt was demolished in 1954 to make way for a parking lot, since replaced by a fountain and plaza.
    — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • That allowed Dickinson to quickly bring the ball into the forecourt, and Creek was whistled on a foul away from the ball.
    — Ted Dunnam, Houston Chronicle, 12 Jan. 2018
  • While Paris waits for its iconic landmark to reopen, a smaller chapel could be installed in the forecourt.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2020
  • Visitors arrive by circular driveway at the forecourt on the west side of the house and see a red-tile, hip roof and a tower where the two wings meet.
    — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • In 1769, Louis XV decreed that all distances in France would be calculated from the forecourt of the cathedral.
    — Elaine Sciolino, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2020
  • But Zverev’s finishing skills, particularly in the forecourt and at the net, are still hit or miss.
    — New York Times, 3 June 2022
  • But Humphries recovered, pushed it back to rookie point guard Steve Henson, who dribbled back into the forecourt and found Humphries open for the hoop.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 May 2021
  • The sensitive planting of trees in a variety of shapes, forms, colors and sizes draws you away from the harsh stone of the forecourt and into the softer world of nature.
    — Nel-Olivia Waga, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • That was the nearest that Moore would get to the immortality of the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theater.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021
  • That show is still slated to start at 7 p.m. with opening act Garbage, and the gates to the amphitheater forecourt opening at 5 p.m., according to a post on the venue's Facebook page.
    — Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 23 July 2022
  • For weeks, workers have been cleaning the toxic lead dust from its forecourt and working to restore the edifice.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 18 June 2019
  • Summerfest will have a new pizza vendor, Pizza Man, in the forecourt to the amphitheater.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 June 2019
  • Question marks lingered on whether Davies would be fit for next Monday’s (Dec. 12) performance at the forecourt of the iconic Sydney venue.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Set back from the street wall, the facade leans over a narrow, gated forecourt with benches where elderly neighbors sometimes stop to take a breather and keep an eye on the block.
    — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2022
  • It was announced on Twitter and also proclaimed in the forecourt of Buckingham Palace with a framed notice perched on a golden easel.
    — Sylvia Hui, The Seattle Times, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The procession would have started in the forecourt of Notre Dame, but the entire area and some nearby streets are now fenced off and under strict security.
    — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Instead of grooming the forecourt to the Palladian-style pavilion, Bradford left piles of gravel that were part of his worksite to prepare for the show.
    — Colleen Barry, The Seattle Times, 13 May 2017
  • Bonfire Annie is in the forecourt, holding up a fireball to illuminate all the other touched people who heard Mary’s song and came to this place.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2021
  • An official notice will then be posted on an easel in the Buckingham Palace forecourt.
    — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • This is the tall monument in the middle of the Griffith Observatory’s grassy forecourt.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • His final engagement was on the forecourt of Buckingham Palace.
    — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The ceiling of the mosque’s forecourt supposedly resembled Mike’s brown hair.
    — Peter Christensen, Smithsonian, 24 Apr. 2018

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