library steps
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of library steps
First recorded in 1755–65
Example Sentences
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Hundreds of students walked out Thursday and gathered at the library steps for a “peaceful protest art installation.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 10, 2023
Brave Books released photos showing fans lining up on the library steps even before the doors opened at 10 a.m. for the 10:30 a.m. reading.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
Revised with Concrete Nouns Approaching Brandon Library, I see skateboarders and bikers weaving through students who talk in clusters on the library steps.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
A few years after that first reading, my daughter and I met up on the library steps with some other parents and children.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2018
It would not be her kind of book, or anyone’s really, but she had handed it to him from the library steps and somewhere on its leather surface were her fingerprints.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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