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
The idea of opening a vaccination clinic inside a town centre shopping arcade seemed odd to some of the staff when it was first suggested.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 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
Outside on the terrace under the arcade the German head waiter came up.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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Oleaga described the arcades as “a Walmart of family entertainment.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
Far from the solemn pomp of the Vatican, nestled under the arcades of the mountain town of Santarcangelo di Romagna, a tailor clad all in black leaned over his sketch.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Eleri said it eventually became a business and she made £35,000 in profit before opening the shop in one of Cardiff's arcades this week.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Meanwhile, the shopping mall evolved from a place to buy things into a destination for all kinds of family entertainment, often boasting large food courts, multiplex theaters, indoor playgrounds, video arcades and more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
It contained a kind of underground city comprised entirely of pizza joints, bowling alleys, convenience stores, and, of course, video arcades.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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Installed in the winter-bare garden of an ancient arcaded courtyard were vertical braziers holding firewood.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2018
The chapel was very small with a domed, red-tiled roof and round arcaded windows.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2014
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
The stairs ended at an arcaded hall, beyond which lay a long, brilliant room, comfortably filled with people at supper.
From A Man's Hearth by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram
An old oak screen running under five arches of the arcading to the north side of the aisle separates the Derby Chapel from the aisle.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital by Rev. Thomas Perkins
Above the side portals, the surface of which was decorated with arcading, were gables lighted by rose-windows.
From Ypres and the Battles of Ypres by Unknown
Some of the arcading, notably that in the three easterly bays of the south aisle, is unrestored.
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
Above both lower lights in this window is a renaissance arcading.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
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