Sample Sentences for
alcove
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    Nicole has a full-length locker in a discreet, fresh-smelling alcove because she's on the soccer team.  (source)
    alcove = a recessed or secluded space
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    The crowd parted as the woman beckoned Mowgli to her hut, where there was ... an image of a Hindu god in a little alcove,  (source)
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    The piano was located in a small alcove off the small living room...  (source)
    alcove = recessed (partly enclosed and pushing outward from the main room)
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    I strode blindly out into the hall, not to my room, because that was where they would come to get me, but to the alcove ... in a quiet corner of the hall, where Joan and Loubelle and DeeDee and Mrs. Savage would not come.  (source)
    alcove = a recessed or secluded space
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    ...three days of long evenings on her dusky veranda, of strange wan kisses through the late afternoon, in shadowy alcoves or behind the protecting trellises of the garden arbors,  (source)
    alcoves = a recessed or secluded space -- such as in a garden or room
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    He had from day to day no clear idea where the day's food, shelter, lodging was to come from, although he was reasonably sure it would be given: he ate wherever he happened to hang his hat, either at Gant's or at his mother's; occasionally, although infrequently, he slept with Luke in the sloping, alcoved, gabled back room, rude with calcimine, with the high drafty steps that slanted to the kitchen porch, with the odor of old stacked books in packing-cases, with the sweet orchard scents.†  (source)
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    I glanced in that direction and saw a darkened alcove just beyond the snack bar.†  (source)
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    The gloomy light made the place feel haunted, as if the spirits of all the people WICKED had let die were there waiting in the corners and alcoves.†  (source)
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    Gaius stopped to glance at a huge white owl on a perch in an alcove.†  (source)
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    I recognized the fireplace flanked by alcoves on the far wall, the way the light streamed in from the street through slanted blinds; I knew that when I turned to my left there would be glass and green and beyond that the railway line.†  (source)
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    But I could just be driving into an alcove.†  (source)
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    As she came near the second of these alcoves she stopped skipping.†  (source)
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    We celebrated my fifty-first birthday with a little party in the de Vrieses' alcove home.†  (source)
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