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Examples

  • Some day the reality is going to crash the myth like a Bald Eagle hitting a plate-glass window.

    Report Card Gives Low Marks to City Council Members « PubliCola 2010

  • NORTH HOLLYWOOD -- Police say an intoxicated man crashed his speeding car through the plate-glass window of a North Hollywood restaurant and injured three people....

    Aerosol Cans Found In Car Smashed Into North Hollywood Restaurant ktla.com 2011

  • Signed, Your friend who gave her own self a nose job walking into a plate-glass door.

    For Franklin | clusterflock 2009

  • One of the plate-glass windows was smashed in the process.

    Fracas Curtails China iPhone Sales Owen Fletcher 2012

  • I punched out a $200 plate-glass window and if I'd had ammunition in the gun I'd probably have killed them.

    Bill English 2010

  • Then I closed the door, and dragged my sad ass up four flights of stairs to the top floor, where I gazed out my fourteen-foot plate-glass window at the lights on the Capitol Records building and the Roosevelt Hotel sign.

    Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011

  • It has no bimbos, no tools, no misogyny, nobody being hurled through plate-glass windows!

    TV review: Cultural zeitgeist, scored by Super Bowl ads Hank Stuever 2011

  • From the street, passersby will see a plate-glass window striped in black.

    A Synagogue for the Young 2011

  • This, from a woman who drove a car through the plate-glass window of a neighborhood grocery and seriously injured an elderly man waiting for his blood pressure medicine.

    A Light at Winter’s End Julia London 2011

  • Before Suraiya had arrived to prop herself picturesquely in Sadhana's doorway, Sadhana had been seated, swivelled sideways in her chair, staring absently at the plate-glass windows across 18th Street into their reflection of blue sky and white clouds and sugar maples turning orange.

    For the Sake of the Boy Ramola D 2011

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