entrance
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On Election Day, outside Burns Seventh-day Adventist Church in Detroit, a light conversation I had with three men near the entrance took an awkward turn.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2026
For Year 11 pupils, there is a separate entrance path which is lined each morning by teachers who stop a few and quiz them about their subject, problem solving on the spot with a whiteboard.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
Kali Reis, a former world champion boxer and actor who identifies with the Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe, offers a different kind of entrance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
Conservationists have restored most of the original 16 towers and surrounding walls over the past 14 years, and put the finishing touches on a stone marker at the entrance last week.
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026
She fluttered straight for the clusters of shade trees past the subway entrance and settled into the leaves.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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Colourful patterns known as rangoli are created at entrances to homes, while markets bustle with shoppers buying festive essentials beneath brightly lit decorations.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
With two primary entrances and a lone main exit, coming and going is an ordeal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
The increasingly extreme merchandise taking over suburban lawns and big-box store entrances is starting to spook some consumers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Later in one of the videos, McHenry appears to argue with a security worker near at one of the venue’s entrances.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
He picks a path to take and along it, between the entrances to the surrounding tents, there is a small group gathered around a raised platform.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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In an attempt to parody the hit horror movie “Obsession” released earlier this year, the 60-second commercial showed Clark as someone so entranced by his new driver that he wouldn’t let anyone else touch it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
How Scotland, and other parts of the world, became entranced by the fairytale only for the reality of sport's essential brutality to hit them square between the eyes at Celtic Park on denouement day.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
The production is most effective when the actors are singing, especially Grace Yoo, who plays Mei-Li and had me entranced the moment she started singing “A Hundred Million Miracles.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
That becomes a problem when, after one of their weekly lunches, the three friends stroll around a furniture store, where Camille is entranced by a gorgeous chair she can’t possibly afford.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026
Abel and Amanda stood in the forefront of the group, entranced by the fearsome drama.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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As the star of Misty Green, Eleazar is an absolute mess, but an entrancing one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The result is a quiet, entrancing study of one man’s gaze and of the ideas and questions that seized him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
It doesn’t hurt, of course, that this veteran dreamweaver’s key cast are entrancing, inviting specimens themselves, led by an inner glow of compassion in Leung that feels like its own natural energy source.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
The lyric, "I'll cry my eyes violet", refers to the star's famously entrancing eyes; and the line "what could you possibly get for the girl who has everything" namechecks one of her films.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
They made such an entrancing sight that Tyrion almost waddled right into the steaming pile of dung the elephant had left to mark its passage.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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