Example sentences for: grassmarket

How can you use “grassmarket” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • From Grassmarket, a road runs parallel to the Royal Mile to Holyrood on a lower level.

  • West Bow (said to be so named because it was within a bow’s length of the castle walls) and Candlemakers Row are streets leading away from Cowgate Head, at the end of Grassmarket.

  • Grassmarket has a memorial to the Covenanters (Scottish Protestant clergymen) martyred by Catholic Stuart kings in the 17th century.

  • The Greyfriars Church was closely linked with the Protestant Covenanters, and many of those hanged in the Grassmarket are buried here.

  • Below Grassmarket is Cowgate, known for generations as the Irish Quarter because many families came here to escape the potato famine in their own country.


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