Sentence examples for older quarters from inspiring English sources

Indeed, central Manama feels like a strange but invigorating cross between the older quarters of a European city and Delhi.

Haussmann's buildings hid the older quarters from the public's view, while his boulevards were wide in order to prevent the construction of barricades.

Classrooms have been moved to the new building, with 18,000 square feet freed for research and other labs in the older quarters.

Though bargains may be scattered (like ruins) throughout the older quarters of the city, certain elegant neighborhoods are best avoided entirely — Parioli and the area around Via Veneto, for example.

The narrow streets and little taverns and restaurants of the older quarters contrast with the broad sweep of Wenceslas Square and modern parks and housing developments, while the great 18th-century Baroque palaces have their own elegance and splendour.

Tribeca, which stands for Triangle Below Canal, is wedged among three older quarters — SoHo to the north, Wall Street to the south, and an undefined but grayly imposing neighborhood to the east, which might be called MunicipalWorld, where City Hall and the courts and the Federal Building sit.

The older quarter will give a high-pitched, clear ringing tone, while the newer quarters will give a dull thump of a sound.

Some cities have old quarters.

The Princeton Club sold its old quarters, at Park Ave.

We set off in an electric shuttle cart, in search of her old quarters.

The old quarters of Palma have many notable homes built in the 16th and 18th centuries.