Example Sentences

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Through 6-inch plate glass, I interviewed the rising star shortly after sheriff’s deputies raided his old apartment near LAX.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2025

Amid the glittering, plate glass and steel skyscrapers of modern Doha, Hamas officials have been sitting down with Qatari diplomats from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to work through the complex issue of hostage releases.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2023

After graduating high school, she worked in finance at a Pittsburgh plate glass company and would attend ballroom dancing events weekly, according to her family.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2023

The little cottage is safer, as it happens, than the architectural marvels perched on the rocky seaward verges of Big Sur, one of which took a 50-foot wave straight through its plate glass window.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2023

I wanted to plant myself in front of each plate glass window to study the displays of merchandise like other girls did.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu