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promenade

[prom-uh-nayd, -nahd] / ˌprɒm əˈneɪd, -ˈnɑd /


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The 150-year-old wych elm on the central promenade took more than 30% of the national public vote.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

There are so few cars in Cuba's capital that it is possible to cross the Malecon, the once bustling seafront promenade, without looking.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

At L’Alegria de l’Horta on the Malvarrosa Beach promenade, I sit in pressed clothes and drink fine Valencian wine.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

Some ventures have succeeded, however, most notably the Detroit Riverwalk, a miles-long promenade built in the 2000s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

The lower floor of the Town House was an open promenade and here every day the merchants gathered ‘on ’change.’

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

Families popped it over wood stoves; peddlers sold it in paper cones at circuses, carnivals and busy promenades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

These sort of wind speeds will lead to large coastal waves which are likely to overtop the sea walls and promenades.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026

Thanks to its 1920s-era Spanish Revival buildings, arched colonnades and broad public promenades, visiting it feels like stepping back to a time when walkability and simple elegance were the norm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2025

The state transportation department is replacing old, rusting metal pipes with broad, concrete promenades that provide more gradual gradients and gentler flows for salmon swimming upstream to access more spawning grounds.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2023

Even more astounding than the great temples and immense banners and colorful promenades were the botanical gardens—none existed in Europe.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

From Johannesburg to Cape Town and other areas across the country thousands of people, most with mandated face masks and keeping some distance, promenaded outside.

From Washington Times ● May 1, 2020

Memories of I-10 bedlam began to evaporate as we promenaded through the compact, tiered garden, serenaded by the gentle babble of small fountains.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2018

The reservoirs are currently undergoing a modernization process that may convert them into a promenaded recreation area akin to Echo Park.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2016

I would to God Shakespeare had lived later, & promenaded in Broadway.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 23, 2016

Meanwhile, Atawallpa’s triumphant cavalcade, perhaps as many as eighty thousand strong, slowly promenaded to Qosqo.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

"Here's hoping we have some nice weather for the promenading pooches."

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2023

It will spend another 3 years promenading among the moons, eventually ending up in a tight orbit around Ganymede—the first time a spacecraft will orbit a moon other than Earth’s.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 5, 2023

We saw startling modernization of Saudi society — I could never have imagined street musicians and unveiled women promenading in Jiddah.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2022

She recalled Saturday nights promenading on Third Street and trying to snatch the brass ring at the pier’s merry-go-round to get a free ride.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2021

I was a bride, promenading down the center aisle of San Juan Evangelista twenty years back to marry the man with whom I would have our dear children, dearer than my life.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez




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