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Example sentences for: plazas
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The Friendship Store on east Chang’an Avenue and the aging Wangfujing Department Store (255 Wangfujing Dajie), once purveyors of Beijing’s most up-to-date fashions and top merchandise, have been superseded by the sudden eruption of huge shopping malls and plazas.
On my way out of town, I drive through a fold in time,a tunnel through the history of shopping:boarded-up storefronts on the narrow commercial streets,the old strips and plazas with a muffler shop or a chicken fryer left,and larger sites--a five-and-dime blown out into a warehouse,fast-food shops, all local chains now,with their scratchy speakers and pot-holed drive-thru lanes;then the first real malls, big as aircraft carriers, low and blocky,their outlying coffee shops and two-screen theaters like escorts;at last a quieting stretch, the freeway growing wallsand the walled tracts all around nestled in their names--The Willows, Hunt Club Crossing, Hidden Acres--their malls planted, soft-colored, smoothly designed,broad single lumps surrounded by asphalt prairie,distant and unobtrusive as buttes.
An intriguing pattern of stairways and ramps collectively dubbed “stramps” — very popular with rollerskaters and rollerbladers — runs across the plazas from corner to corner, attracting large crowds during city celebrations.
Historic Palma can be seen in a day or two, though the plazas, cafés, restaurants, and bars may cause you to linger.
The Xidan shopping district, about 2 km (11⁄2 miles) west of the Forbidden City, is working on two new massive shopping plazas of its own to compete with Wangfujing’s Sun Dong An Plaza.
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