How to Use convention center in a Sentence

convention center

noun
  • On that note, attendees should figure out where to park long before reaching the convention center.
    John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 24 July 2024
  • In one case, two people were found sleeping in one of the tunnel stations located near one of the convention center parking lots.
    Lawrence Hodge / Jalopnik, Quartz, 10 Oct. 2024
  • People break the rules by going where they’re not supposed to, forcing the company or convention center to intervene and escort them out.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The city hasn't blown up a Strip casino since 2016, when the final tower of the Riviera was leveled for a convention center expansion.
    CBS News, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The main hall of the convention center is stocked with boats, boats and more boats.
    al, 4 Mar. 2023
  • There is a bomb threat at the Fort Worth convention center.
    Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Muslims across the state were gathered at the convention center for the event.
    Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 29 June 2023
  • The stadium and convention center were both closed at the time of the shooting.
    The Indianapolis Star, 28 Aug. 2023
  • In Tampa, the city’s largest convention center hasn’t seen any events cut bait.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Outside on the loading dock of the convention center, DiFranco, whose hair is now bleached blond, pulls me aside.
    Jonathan Van Meter, SPIN, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Audience for Trump speech Trump spoke to some 4,000 people in a hall in the convention center.
    Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Other people stopped for me inside the convention center and outside in the heart of the foot traffic.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 22 Mar. 2023
  • In biz:What's being built near the convention center in downtown Louisville?
    Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Inside a hallway on the second floor of the convention center, Gosnell would draw his last breath.
    Noe Padilla, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Sep. 2024
  • All of it is in a random convention center [with a set] that’s been fabricated that day and will get torn down that day.
    Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Mar. 2023
  • And, for the most part, the convention center has been operating at that level mid-2021.
    Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 14 July 2024
  • The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts and the city’s convention center are nearby, as is the city’s streetcar line.
    Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 14 Feb. 2024
  • They will be held at the Gas South District in Duluth, an area that includes an arena and a convention center.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 6 May 2024
  • Most events took place in the same convention center where the presidents will meet starting on Tuesday.
    Dabid Biller and Fabiano Maisonnave, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Cosplayers of all stripes bustled in and around the convention center.
    Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
  • The larger-than-life moment echoed through the convention center and, by all accounts, may do the same on the campaign trail for the remainder of the election season.
    Melissa Cruz, USA TODAY, 18 July 2024
  • Dallas plans to spend $3.5 billion or more to build a sprawling new convention center.
    Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • But none proceeded − even after the late '90s construction of the downtown convention center, now known as the Baird Center, just north of the site.
    Katherine Loren, Journal Sentinel, 28 June 2024
  • Niemeyer said the construction of a convention center has been an issue in Lake County for at least five years.
    Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2023
  • But here, in the halls of a Memphis convention center, the analyst hardly looked like an oddity in tight black shorts.
    Bre Badham, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Vance was still onstage Wednesday night when doors opened at the New Fashioned, a beer emporium across the street from the convention center.
    Jesús Rodríguez, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
  • The money also would have gone to expand the downtown convention center.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The development team could still build a convention center and hotel — but not the casino.
    Téa Kvetenadze, New York Daily News, 28 May 2024
  • The city is working to set up two shelters at vacant schools and possibly in the downtown convention center.
    Daniel Borunda, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
  • The Kimpton Harper Fort Worth is in the heart of downtown and within easy walking distance of the convention center and a short driver to the famous stockyards.
    Kim Westerman, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024

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