Example sentences for: largo

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  • Few of Santarém’s monuments have survived, although the Jesuit seminary and church on the main square, the triangular Largo Sá da Bandeira, has an impressive 17th-century baroque façade.

  • Though there are plenty of examples to show that some namers of streets in Santa Fe are aware that in Spanish a definitive modifier follows the modified word, so that there are streets properly named, for instance, Camino Cerrito, Calle Lorca , or Plaza Fatima , there are other street names that betray oblivion to this grammatical rule, for example: Monte Vista Place or Cielo Vista Court where Monte Vista and Cielo Vista are supposed to mean respectively Mountain View and Sky View but, so far as they signify anything, really mean View Mountain and View Sky or Heaven . Even more common in Santa Fe are names in which adjectives fail to agree as to gender with the nouns they modify, for example: Calle Largo, Calle Lejano , or Calle Contento . This error may be due in part to the English tendency to reduce all unaccented final vowels to schwa and in part due to the fact that Spanish adjectives are listed in dictionaries in their masculine forms only.

  • Cayo Largo is a tourist enclave where visitors are never more than a few yards from sugar-white sands.

  • Resorts catering to all levels of ability include Playa Santa Lucía, María la Gorda, Cayo Largo, Varadero, Playa Girón (with good diving directly off the shore), Playa Ancón, Cayo Coco, and Guardalavaca.

  • Beyond the arch, a cobbled street, worn slick by centuries of tramping feet, leads up to the splendid expanse of the Largo da Sé (Cathedral Square), best seen in the evening when floodlit and free of cars.


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