Example Sentences

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“On a tour of Texas last week they kicked through a plateglass door in Amarillo to get him to autograph their arms and underclothes.”

From Time • Jan. 8, 2016

His store on the Prinsens-Gade, with its flag over the door and the costly sheen of the fur coats behind the thick plateglass, is one of the most expensive, the most profitable in Oslo.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Baltimore, the fans broke a plateglass window trying to get to Mario.

From Time Magazine Archive

Schaefer's was an old, dirty-looking building, with a large plateglass window giving on to the pavement.

From I Walked in Arden by Crawford, Jack

Its plateglass, its fresh paint and gilding, and the specimens of ceramic art which fill the window, give it somewhat the air of one of those London shops kept by ladies of title.

From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Barker, Edward Harrison