6 sentences with 'square'
Example sentences and phrases with the word square and other words derived from it.
• « The Arctic region has most of its 17 million square metres of land area permanently covered by ice, with layers as thick as three to four metres. »
• « Citizens met in the agora, an open area used as a marketplace and public square, and discussed matters of importance to the polis as a whole. »
• « The palace grounds cover some 2,000 acres, or just over 3 square miles (by comparison, Central Park in New York City is a mere 843 acres in size). »
• « Napoleon's empire stretched from Belgium and Holland in the north to Rome in the south, covering almost half a million square miles and boasting a population of 44 million. »
• « When the new tsar, Nikolai I, was crowned in December 1825, the officers staged a rebellion in the square in front of the royal palace in St. Petersburg, hoping that the army as a whole would side with them and force the tsar to accept the reforms. Instead, after a tense day of waiting, troops loyal to the tsar opened fire and crushed the uprising. »
• « The Nazi extermination camps, however, were designed for one purpose: to kill people. There were only six of them in total, and most were very small - often around a quarter of a square mile in size. All were located in occupied Poland, near railway lines and hidden in forests far from the main population centres. »