arcade
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In just 15 minutes at a Manhattan arcade, the 20-year-old college student and her boyfriend had collected three prizes from the rows of claw machines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
We went to this arcade bar called Neon Retro.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Gilligan, a judge on popular ITV series The Masked Singer, recalled spending days on the beach and riding the log flume at the fun park as well playing the penny arcade machines.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The company, he said, will open a "cultural, artistic, fashion, art, retail food experience" in Milan's Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the ornate 19th century shopping arcade where the first Prada boutique opened in 1913.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
They were carrying tables out and setting them up under the arcade.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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The rest is “walk-in retail,” which includes bowling, arcades, food and beverage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
A famous bull mosaic in one of Italy's grand arcades is getting some much-needed care after being worn down by tourists honouring a tradition involving its delicate body parts.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
Some 80 percent of the 22,000 arcades Japan had in 1989 have shut down, but revenues have held up thanks to claw machines, according to the Japan Amusement Industry Association.
From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025
And while a modern Chuck E. Cheese is school-cafeteria bright, Chuck’s Arcade is dark, its black walls and low lighting recalling the arcades of the ’80s and ’90s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
One of the topiary arcades that leads to the palace gardens holds peek-a-boo flowers that wink light.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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The chapel was very small with a domed, red-tiled roof and round arcaded windows.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2014
From arcaded passageways, the museums open onto a domed chapel and a peaceful courtyard with the new Charité Café and a general bookstore.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2013
History and Coffee During the Roman era, some 20,000 spectators would fill the stone seats of the arcaded amphitheater in what is now Piazza Sant’Oronzo.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2013
There are two streets which are arcaded, where activities are limited, eg preventing the playing of radios or busking.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2012
Many are of brick, with well-built domed roofs, and sides arcaded both above and below, and are wide and airy.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
Above both lower lights in this window is a renaissance arcading.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
These sills are panelled with a foliated arcading, and in front of the passage there is an open trefoil work parapet.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by A. B. Clifton
There is an open arcading on each side, extending to the piers of the presbytery.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by A. B. Clifton
Inside the arcading differs in the two transepts; in the south and older one the pointed arches are plain, while on the north they are cusped.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by A. B. Clifton
A plain stone gallery with blind arcading, which formerly ran round the chevet on a level with the springing of the roof, was replaced by Viollet-le-Duc, with pierced battlemented arcading.
From Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) by Various
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