rialto

Example Sentences

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But barring that, it’s hard to see how the rialto avoids dimming its lights once again.

From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2021

This was not a rialto over Monet’s lily pads.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2020

Lahr, the former drama critic for the New Yorker, occasional playwright and biographer of Joe Orton and other "theatricals," knows his way around the rialto.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2014

Though the vaudeville houses are gone, there are buildings redolent of the Bowery as an entertainment rialto, including the shuttered Amato Opera and the defunct Bouwerie Lane Theater and punk-rock club CBGB.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2011

Sing you, in your clear contralto, Songs I write for the rialto.

From Something Else Again by Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)