Example sentences for: wilshire

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

  • A living museum of the Art Deco architecture that characterized Los Angeles’s rise to greatness during the 1920s and 1930s, the section of Wilshire between La Brea and Fairfax avenues, known as the “miracle mile,” is slowly being renovated after years of neglect.

  • But L.A. has other stylish shopping districts, too: Wilshire Boulevard (ironically named after the eccentric socialist Gaylord Wilshire); Century City, near Westwood Village; Montana Avenue in Santa Monica; and Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood are among the most well-known.

  • At the edge of Westwood, the UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center (10899 Wilshire Boulevard) features a fabulous collection of paintings personally collected over the last fifty years by Hammer.

  • If you’re heading west from downtown, avoid the freeway and follow another great thoroughfare, Wilshire Boulevard.

  • If your visit to Hollywood has filled you with nostalgia for the great days of cinema, then you might like to pay homage to Marilyn Monroe in Westwood Memorial Park (1212 Glendon Avenue, south of Wilshire Boulevard), where a modest plaque bears silent testimony to the actress.


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