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Example sentences for "theatres"

Lexicographically close words:
theas; thease; theater; theaters; theatre; theatri; theatric; theatrical; theatricalism; theatrically
  1. Even the applause in theatres is organised.

  2. On 13th January of the same year the restrictions on the opening of playhouses were revoked, and by November no less than seventy-eight theatres were registered on the books of the Hôtel de Ville.

  3. The principle of literary liberty, already understood by the thinking and reading world, is not less completely adopted by that immense crowd, eager for the pure emotions of art, that throngs the theatres of Paris every night.

  4. By removing the theatres from troublesome authority .

  5. In the Revolution, during its most horrible periods, when tragedy, as was said, ran the streets, what were the theatres offering you?

  6. That it would put many provincial theatres to shame.

  7. These theatres are wretchedly ventilated; there's a very unpleasant odor here," she said, after a moment.

  8. Thomas Sutton, who was appointed Chaplain there in 1615, was an ardent denouncer of plays and players, of whose iniquities he was constantly reminded by the Globe and other theatres in the neighbourhood.

  9. So we had a taste of the social life of that fascinating city, and could enjoy the theatres also.

  10. Jack took a year's leave of absence and joined me in the autumn at Nantucket, and the winter was spent in New York, enjoying the theatres and various amusements we had so long been deprived of.

  11. The audience in German theatres is spared this last piece of absurdity and the play is brought to a more appropriate close by Hamlet's stabbing himself on his bride's bier.

  12. Falstaff was first represented in Milan in February 1893; since then it has made its way to all theatres of renown, and it is now indisputable that we have in it a masterpiece of composition and orchestration.

  13. Theatres are very commonly the touchstones by which one may discover the bearing of the public mind; and Her Majesty, by way of proving it, visited all the minor theatres, which were densely crowded upon each attendance.

  14. A play was then commanded at the two Theatres Royal.

  15. Dramatic authors succeeded in their aim; their works were placed in libraries, and the theatres were deserted.

  16. The public stood without, in the street, in the fair, forming a semicircle round the stage, exposed to the sun and the showers; an arrangement which made rain less desirable for theatres in those days than now.

  17. Theatres experience the effect of tides: they rise in one only on condition of falling in another.

  18. Once a fortnight a paper was read, usually on some point of surpassing dulness--this was in the good old days, when lectures were solemn and theatres merry.

  19. Their public walks and Theatres are less offensive to decency than ours.

  20. It shews off the Performers and induces the Audience to pay more Attention to ye Stage, but the brilliant Effect we are used to find on entering our Theatres is wanting.

  21. The Company was numerous, & I suppose the best, at least it was better than any I had seen at the Theatres or in the Walks, but it appeared to me to be very bad.

  22. As a matter of course foreign theatres took the easiest course open to them to obtain possession of the score.

  23. The proper season for concerts, and also for private musical parties, was Lent, when the theatres were closed; the concerts were generally given in the theatre.

  24. It is an omnibus centre, a station on the new "Metropolitan," and its name has been given to one of the most modern theatres of Paris.

  25. This house had accommodations for but two thousand spectators, and, in spite of its sumptuousness and rank, was distinctly inferior in point of size to many opera-houses and theatres elsewhere.

  26. This fact was usually stated, though during the period when the theatres were silenced exceptions were not very uncommon.

  27. Dreads he not our sea-monsters, whose wild shapes Their theatres ne'er yet in picture saw?

  28. The streets were brilliant with light, and half New York appeared to be abroad, although the theatres had been in full swing for nearly an hour.

  29. Photoplay theatres are set up in ports where sailors revel, in heathen towns where gentlemen adventurers are willing to make one last throw with fate.

  30. The best motion picture theatres are built for photoplays alone.

  31. The photoplay theatres have coupon contests and balloting already: the most popular young lady, money prizes to the best vote-getter in the audience, etc.

  32. In the metropolitan theatres Cabiria carried its own musicians and programme with a rich if feverish result.

  33. The reader will find in his round of the picture theatres many single scenes and parts of plays that elucidate the title of this chapter.

  34. Hastily made photographs selected from the films are often put in front of the better theatres to advertise the show.

  35. More moving picture theatres in doubtful territory will help make dry voters.

  36. While he belonged to the Bath and Bristol theatres he received an invitation to play at Brighton during the summer residence of the Prince of Wales there, with which invitation he complied.

  37. I had visions of multitudes of people bending breathlessly over my books, of theatres where grave and painted men were coming forward and uttering my name to the boundless enthusiasm of the audience.

  38. There is not a vacant table, the cabarets, the circus shows, the theatres have poured forth the scum of their habitues here.

  39. You are victorious on all theatres of war, ashore as well as afloat!

  40. The victory which was withheld from them on all the theatres of war is to be accomplished by an elaborate attack against the defensive walls of our best blood.

  41. I do not know whether the average size of our theatres differs much from that of the Elizabethan.

  42. Even on the Elizabethan stage, where scene followed scene without a pause, this must have been felt; and in our theatres it would be felt much more.

  43. We may now pass on to arrangements common to all public theatres, whether the play performed were Jonson's or Shakespeare's; and in the first instance to a characteristic common to the public and private theatres alike.

  44. We catch the effect in reading, but in our theatres it is usually destroyed by the interval.

  45. This is, of course, a mistake, caused no doubt by the fact that in Japanese theatres the female characters in a play are so often impersonated by men.

  46. They were, as a matter of fact, written for theatres in which there were to be not actors but marionettes, singers being engaged to sing the lines out of sight while the puppets depicted the characters.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "theatres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.