How to Use piazza in a Sentence

piazza

noun
Definition of piazzanext
Synonyms for piazzanext
  • Piazza falls down three steps and the brother leaves him on the floor.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 May 2017
  • The house has many entrances, like a great piazza in Rome.
    — Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 29 Nov. 2017
  • The design even includes a piazza on the north side of the building.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Choose from two, two-hour sessions, held back-to-back on the patio in the piazza.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The little kids chased each other around the piazza while Teigen posed on a bench and laughed.
    — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Just off the corner of the piazza is the station at Via Caposcuro.
    — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 7 May 2022
  • In the town’s center, a stone church fronts a quiet piazza.
    — Douglas Morino, Orange County Register, 17 June 2017
  • Diners can eat there, on the patio, in the pretty piazza or take it to-go.
    — Michele Parente, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 July 2018
  • Not in the flesh, of course, as he's been dead more than 120 years, but as a statue or the namesake of a piazza, pizzeria or cafe.
    — Cory Oldweiler, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
  • Teddy played with Melissa, the daughter of the toy-store owner, in the piazza.
    — Bonnie Tsui, Redbook, 23 May 2017
  • The town's tiny piazza is an ideal spot for lunch and/or a quick espresso.
    — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Around 100 set up camp with their suitcases on the grass in the piazza outside the building.
    — Tom Kington, latimes.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • The grounds were choked with weeds, and the mansion’s piazza overlooking the river was propped up with old ship’s masts.
    — Eddie Dean, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
  • The crowd grew quiet as the horses and their riders entered the piazza.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Every entry point to the yacht leads to the vast, theatrical piazza of sorts.
    — Nargess Banks, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • O’Connor and Buckley smile shyly at one another, as if across a Veronese piazza — when the play leaps out of the gate.
    — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2021
  • In one piazza, a sign points to the Byzantine Road, laid a thousand years ago and leading down to the port of Piso Livadi.
    — Andrew Sean Greer, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Children were hoisted aloft to be blessed by the Virgin as a marching band played in a small piazza fronting the church that bears her name.
    — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2021
  • We were charmed by the colorful fishing boats and the cafe life in the adjacent piazza.
    — Pamela Hasterok, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2017
  • A lovely day, though blue and pale yellow and blue ceiling over the piazza, and all the roses and golds of the houses shining.
    — Mavis Gallant, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2022
  • The piazza thronged with onlookers jostling for a perfect view of the basilica right in front of them.
    — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2021
  • There's no room to sit inside, but there are plenty of tables outside on the piazza.
    — Laura Itzkowitz, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Tables are placed outside on a large piazza and within the cave, where lanterns cast a lovely glow over the bar's sandstone walls.
    — Jim Berkeley, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • The crowds around the basilica were larger than normal, but were contained near the main piazza.
    — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Piazza’s parents, Jim and Evelyn, arrived at the courthouse around 7:30 a.m. with their lawyer, Tom Kline, and once again took front-row seats in the courtroom.
    — Erin McCarthy, Philly.com, 10 July 2017
  • The morning fog still hadn’t lifted when the main piazza started filling up.
    — Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Small, charming restaurant and wine bar just off the piazza with old-school touches like hanging meats from the ceiling.
    — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 27 June 2022
  • When the carriage started moving again, exiting the piazza, the die-hards gave chase.
    — Jon Mooallem Andrea Frazzetta, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Second-story walkways above the piazza will include awnings to deflect rain in the winter and heat in the summer.
    — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The Campo piazza, long a center of nightlife, has also come back to life at the evening aperitivo hour.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2020

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