Sentence examples for venerable town from inspiring English sources

Nearby is the venerable Town Hall, potentially one of the city's best concert halls, languishing with underuse, or perhaps misuse.

Wellfleet is a venerable town (incorporated 1763) jutting out into the Atlantic on one side and Cape Cod Bay on the other, near the hooked elbow of Cape Cod.

FOR years, Porto's motto was, in essence, "You've tried the wine; now try the city!" But these days Portugal's second-largest metropolis — an attractively faded hillside city of venerable town houses and Baroque churches — no longer needs to coast on the reputation of its famous digestif.

The Scene Downtown Wimberley is made up of a clutch of boutiques and restaurants, like the River House gift shop and the Wimberley Cafe, which sport Wild West facades and sit on a venerable town square that's anchored by a flagpole that bears both the United States and the Texas flags.

Even in his boyhood the venerable industrial town had been prolific of what the child had thought of as throwaway men — working-class males whose craft or occupation had withered and left them with nothing to do all day but smoke cigarettes and wait for a visit to the local bar to come due.

Sunny Isles Beach, Florida; a venerable beach town that has grown up over the years in such a way that even Donald Trump couldn't resist investing.

On the road, Kroc looks out the window of his car, and Hancock shows what Kroc sees — a series of roof lines of classic and venerable small-town American buildings, church steeples, and other calmly majestic structures.

It took Locke-Ober, the most venerable restaurant in town, to think of banning women.

Somehow, the venerable institution of town hall meetings has horrifically morphed into little more than senior extreme games, with enraged, belt-busting, bespectacled, graying, health care revolutionaries preparing to storm the barricades to reclaim capitalism from the socialists who have taken power.

PAT RILEY is back in town, the venerable crunch-time coach who brought you Showtime in Los Angeles, Short Time in New York and now Zo Time in Miami.

When I rolled into Cambridge, around dinner hour, the town's venerable and self-proclaimed world's oldest crab-packing house, J. M. Clayton Company, had closed for the day.