Sentence examples for a place besides from inspiring English sources

Around 11, the last teenage kid finished warbling out his godawful acoustic songs, and I said my goodbye to their 30-year-old patron saint, the guy who had provided them a place to go, a place besides the mall or the coffee shop or their parents houses where they could be together.

Jenie Carlen, a spokeswoman for Borders Group Inc. in Ann Arbor, Mich., said the company wanted people to think of its 360 bookstores around the country as a "third place" besides work and home.

Credit China's Communists for a capitalist anomaly: The Hong Kong Stock Exchange will surpass Nasdaq, London and Tokyo to raise more money in initial public offerings this year than any place besides the New York Stock Exchange.

Many of those interviewed said clubs offer a rare way to socialize with people outside school and, equally important, a place to meet besides the movies or the mall.

Looking for Goldilocks A blue-ribbon committee of chemists convened by the National Academy of Sciences concluded that there was only one ironclad requirement for life, besides energy: a place warm enough for chemical reactions to go on.

When the two researchers repeated their experiment with recordings of Masai women and children, the elephants tended to ignore them.The alarm-call study was carried out by Joseph Soltis and Anne Savage, biologists at Disney's Animal Kingdom, in Florida, which, besides being a place of entertainment, has a research arm.

Reading from a "Pastor's Dream and Vision" statement, Mr. Ree said that besides creating a place of worship, a residential building and an after-school tutoring space, "this community center would be designed as a theater of sorts, with the purpose of encouraging artistic expressions of music and drama".

In the booming real estate market, builders or remodelers of larger homes are finding that a full-size pool table (eight feet long, or nine feet for championship and most antique models) can have a lot of uses besides being a place to make judicious wagers (a practice that went out of style with stogies, anyway).

Backstage (besides being a place that I'm not allowed) is a 50-year-old entertainment industry brand known for publishing a weekly trade rag and bimonthly industry directory/digest, among other things.

This last figure is telling as it means that the whole profile of tequila in America is changing as it evolves from the cheap firewater that fueled countless frat parties to a serious, $100-per-bottle connoisseurs drink worthy of a place on the back bar besides the best single-malt Scotches and cognacs.

So besides just having a place to go, a place to be tutored, a place to really make connections and learn how to communicate and social skills and all of those things, I found ballet at my club.