Washington Mall

Cultural  

1. A long, rectangular stretch of parkland in the middle of Washington, D.C., that extends from the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial to the United States Capitol. The Washington Monument and the Vietnam Memorial are located on the Mall; the different museums of the Smithsonian Institution are found along either side.

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Example Sentences

Starnes remembers looking out the bus window and being struck by the scene as the Washington Mall came into view.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 10, 2021

The journalism-centric museum on the Washington Mall lets anyone stand in front of a green screen and deliver a news segment.

From The Verge • Aug. 25, 2016

In its scale, monotony of materials and color, preening formalism and disregard for the gritty urban fabric, the hub is the sort of object-building that might seem at home on the Washington Mall.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2016

The authors — Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, and Paul Ryan — were depicted together on the book’s cover casually smiling on a congressional balcony overlooking the Washington Mall.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 10, 2015

Then the flowers and adulation would go to the condemned man, and the Bureau would add his name to the plaque at the base of the towering statue on the Washington Mall.

From The Executioner by Riley, Frank