How to Use showplace in a Sentence

showplace

noun
Definition of showplacenext
Synonyms for showplacenext
  • They have transformed their home into a showplace.
  • This was, at the time, the city’s newest civic showplace.
    — Tommy Rowan, Philly.com, 7 Aug. 2017
  • Even so, the name has stuck through the site’s transition from citadel to showplace.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020
  • But she has been promised to the Duke, the man who holds the purse strings to the next production at the fabled Paris showplace.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland, 3 Mar. 2020
  • As for Gilley’s, the showplace closed in 1989 and burned a year later in what was ruled a case of arson.
    — Jim McKairnes, USA TODAY, 4 June 2020
  • But thanks to a $2 million restoration, the home is now a showplace once again.
    — Michelle Matthews | [email protected], al, 12 Feb. 2020
  • This wart on the waterfront was no way to treat one of the city’s showplace viewpoints.
    — Willie Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2017
  • This Bel-Air showplace, which just hit the market for $65 million.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2019
  • The angular, white structure on Bluestem Lane was built to be a showplace.
    — Maria L. La Ganga, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Now in its place stands a reimagined showplace that pays homage to the lost Beachwood Canyon castle.
    — Neal J. Leitereg, latimes.com, 15 June 2019
  • Her work is on full display here, as the showplace boasts simple, chic spaces with curving lines and walls of glass that take in views of the city.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2020
  • The river was too untrustworthy to be a showplace for rich men’s homes.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Such prized possessions should not have to bear the rigors of long-distance travel to reach the South Beach showplace.
    — Michael Alpiner, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • Hialeah opened in 1925 and its heyday was a showplace for celebrities, pink flamingos and many of the sport's greatest horses.
    — CBS News, 3 Mar. 2018
  • Keenly aware of the tropes invoked down the decades by this kind of premise, the showplaces with them while giving color and depth to its characters.
    — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The show will be in the new I-X showplace on the east side of the complex, in an area mostly unused for expositions before.
    — Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The showplace was designed in 1959 by L.A. architect Rex Lotery.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Spanning half an acre at the end of a cul-de-sac, the Mediterranean-style showplace is perched on a hill with sweeping views of the neighborhoods below.
    — Jack Flemmingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Even these showplaces, though, aren’t likely to be full-time residences.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Thus, what used to be the drugstore now is a showplace for such beauties as the extremely rare 1996 Ford Windstar minivan.
    — Joel Garreau, WIRED, 1 Dec. 1995
  • Create a Blank Canvas A white room can serve as a gallery-like showplace for collections and antiques.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
  • A big chunk of that worth comes from Jones’ crown jewel, the $1.2 billion showplace that ushered in the era of 10-figure sports stadiums in the United States a decade ago.
    — Schuyler Dixon, The Seattle Times, 30 July 2017
  • Cobo, one of nation’s first large convention centers and one that stands where Detroit was founded by the French, is a showplace.
    — Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Craft Beers: This marketplace is in the Epcot Legacy showplace.
    — Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • And perhaps there is no better showplace than Las Vegas and no better showman than chef Gordon Ramsay to be the first.
    — Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Records show the rapper just shelled out $4.65 million for a modern showplace on Miami Beach’s Biscayne Bay.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2019
  • That thoroughfare and surrounding area should be a showplace for our city and its visitors.
    — Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2021
  • At the center of the property, there’s a 6,400-square-foot showplace with four bedrooms, including a primary suite with a loft and terrace.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2022
  • With its lateral layout, the home has been conceived as a natural showplace for art and design.
    — Dckaufman, Robb Report, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Things like buying a small, ramshackle house in the Karnes County burg of Gillett and transforming it into a showplace that cleverly mixes old and new.
    — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Feb. 2023

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