Sample Sentences for
conservatory
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conservatory as in:  music conservatory

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Juilliard is a performing arts conservatory.
conservatory = a school specializing in one of the fine arts
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    She attends the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and Arts.
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    Nic took us to the conservatory where he'd studied violin.  (source)
    conservatory = music school
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    I myself trained at the Conservatory—where I received the Mussorgsky Medal.  (source)
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    "Just like band camp," she joked, though my summer conservatory program is nothing like American Pie.  (source)
    conservatory = music school
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    Let them talk of their oriental summer climes of everlasting conservatories; give me the privilege of making my own summer with my own coals.†  (source)
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    Grandpa attended the Indiana Conservatory of Music and was a classically trained violinist.†  (source)
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    He conducted her about the lawns, and flower-beds, and conservatories; and thence to the fruit-garden and greenhouses, where he asked her if she liked strawberries.†  (source)
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    Farley scoffs, letting the sound echo over the conservatory.†  (source)
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    And I think for a kiss from such a dear creature as Amelia, I would purchase all Mr. Lee's conservatories out of hand.†  (source)
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    "A wet-planet conservatory," she breathed: Potted plants and low-pruned trees stood all about.†  (source)
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    There she had a magnificent, splendidly furnished house and a beautiful garden, with conservatories; her late husband had spared no expense to gratify his fancies.†  (source)
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    In fact, the room looked like a cross between a magical antique shop and a conservatory.†  (source)
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    "They have myriads of servants, miles of conservatories," Clarissa wrote; something like that.†  (source)
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conservatory as in:  plants in the conservatory

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We visited the New York Botanical Garden Conservatory.
conservatory = a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
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    We'll have lunch in the conservatory.
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    We were in a kind of sun porch and conservatory combined, spacious and damp and without many plants.  (source)
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    There were two stone sphinxes flanking the conservatory —  (source)
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    I shall be in the conservatory under the second palm tree on the left.  (source)
    conservatory = a room where plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
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    "I'm going to live in the conservatory," I said.  (source)
    conservatory = a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
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    Laura wanted us to climb up on the sphinxes beside the conservatory, but I said no.  (source)
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    "I was only in the conservatory," she said.  (source)
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    I was all alone, or so it seemed at first, in the ruined glass conservatory at Avilion.  (source)
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    The grounds were derelict, the gardens overgrown; the conservatory was a wreck, with broken panes of glass and desiccated plants, still in their pots.  (source)
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    Once there was a gazebo, and a walled kitchen garden, and several plots of ornamentals, and a lily pond with goldfish in it, and a steam-heated glass conservatory, demolished now, that grew ferns and fuschias and the occasional spindly lemon and sour orange.  (source)
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    She would meet this lover outside the conservatory, which by that time was neglected — my father had no interest in steam-heated orange trees — but I restored it in my mind, and supplied it with hothouse flowers.  (source)
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    Sometimes I hid from her, inside a hollow lilac bush beside the conservatory, where I would read books with my fingers stuck into my ears while she wandered around looking for me, fruitlessly calling my name.  (source)
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    We'd put these things on plates, and take them outside, and eat them here and there — by the pool, in the conservatory.  (source)
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