Sentence examples for a display of plates from inspiring English sources

I'm someone who can't walk past a display of plates — whether it's at Tiffany or a junk shop — without stopping to look, so Shax Riegler's "Dish: 813 Colorful, Wonderful Dinner Plates" (Artisan) provides fuel for my  obsession with dishes (which is kept in check by my small apartment's limited storage space).

The arches set off a display of silver plates made in Constantinople in the seventh century, depicting scenes from the life of King David.

Four actual dresses, close kin of those in his portraits, join a display of magazine fashion plates that track dress styles from the colossal bell shapes of 1860 to the relatively tailored looks of the nineties.

To the right of the room's entrance, a group is ogling a display of 15 Philippines plates from the 1960s.

One wall is decorated with a display of colorful Spanish ceramic plates.

They hesitated before the crowded display of plates, pitchers, doilies and chairs before deciding to go in.

Once cooked, the meats are paraded through the dining room with great fanfare, and carved from the spit directly onto diners' plates in a display of belt-loosening largesse.

When I visited, more than half the diners were regulars from the old days, who arrived with cries of "Welcome back!" The new place has a modern air, boasting a lovely backlighted bar, banquettes, a display of colorful glass bottles, bowls and plates, and fantastic, eye-catching posters.

Mr. Gil has assembled a display of objects — postcards, matchbooks, police badges, license plates — from towns in the United States named after the 19th-century Venezuelan independence-movement leader Simón Bolívar.

An extraordinary assortment of concrete yard animals surrounded a display of bird feeders with folded expired Montana license plates for roofs.

A display of toothpaste tubes.