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Sentence Examples Where the original stove would have been, she has created an inglenook fireplace with an oak surround and alcove storage. Inside was the sleeping alcove with the big platform bed covered with a hessian bedspread decorated with wool tufts. Especially inviting is the entrance alcove, with wooden park benches bathed in sunlight from the street-facing windows. The wolf was cornered in the alcove and his attacker was closing in on his position. Behind it were doors for exits and entrances and a curtained booth or alcove useful for actors to hide inside. A sunken lounge features Moroccan cushions and pouffes, while a dining alcove is covered in rich velvet drapes in red, orange and ochre. To my surprise, he was standing at ease, talking to an old lady who was seated on one of the chairs in the alcove. The three of us settled into a hidden alcove hung with burgundy velvet drapes. The earthen plaster-covered adobe walls are thick enough to include built-in book-shelves, creating a small library alcove behind the kitchen. She had wiggled through a tot-sized aperture in the alcove, and toddled over to a display of butterfly nets four feet away. If you like the backlit Italian stained-glass alcove tucked away in the back, you'll love the loungey second-floor expansion coming this fall. The elegant parlour features an entire mantlepiece and alcove made of marble that's more like a small sitting room. We were in an alcove adjacent to one end, next to two ancient beldames who were tucking into a Gargantuan feast. A certain group of executive show-offs are beginning to smoke cigars outside in a little alcove all of their own. Just then, from the sleeping alcove, came the unmistakable sound of sneezes. He led me into an alcove and stood close to me, so close our faces were nearly touching. In the corners of the alcove are two candle-stands but with no candelabra on them. Chairs are woven wickerwork, though there are some padded alcove booths along the sides as well. Or it could be the illusion of a recess in the wall, like the traditional statue in an alcove. They headed to the control room, a small alcove in the wall with a window cut out of it to see the entire hangar. Show More Sentences She sleeps in the alcove of an old wall that once formed the perimeter of a Maharaja's palace. Looking around the room again, he discovered an alcove in the wall next to the table. As soon as the coast was clear, I left the alcove and walked back round to the front door, slowly. To the east of the window is a stone bookrest, and to the west an alcove seat. In the alcove of the dormer, we painted, freehand, a pattern inspired by designs that adorn many homes of the South African Ndebele tribe. The room was lit by cylindrical skylights, each placed above an alcove of unplastered brickwork with recessed pointing. Each wall in each alcove had detailed plants and flowers, each plant's leaf had carefully carved veins. The figure cast a spell on Adrian, Beltrax, and Talia, teleporting them to an alcove within the dungeon. The apartment also has a home bar set into an alcove, complete with built-in cooler, beer taps and storage shelves. Upstairs, the L-shaped landing is well lit, thanks to a window alcove with room for an occasional chair. Made from cherrywood, this chair, the last of five versions, was designed for a fireside alcove. But our face-off was interrupted by the shrill voice of a woman who stepped into the alcove. The arcade motif found on the brazier and on some steatite objects, is also found at Qusayr Amra in the throne alcove of the audience hall. The tomb sits alone in an arched alcove to the right of the main altar of the central nave, a leafy potted lily behind it and a small red candle burning at the front. Its precious, intricate design conjures up the intimate ambiance of the boudoir and the alcove. Philippe Redom, a 56-year-old rough sleeper and former chef, prefers to remain in his alcove outside an office block. The alcove part was redone based on the original. A wax model for a bronze mask, which fits into the concave form of the alcove, is available. The baking oven is principally and fully fixed onto rollers with which it can easily be rolled into an adequate alcove. All units are basic with a living area, a sleeping alcove, a small kitchen, a full bathroom, and a small storage area. That conversation may have taken place at one of their favourite hideaways, an alcove off King's Park, Dalkeith, known locally as the China Gardens. Show More Sentences The final alcove was jam-packed with works that add travel snapshots and promotional photographs, either enlarged or regular size, to the dizzying mix. The Manufacture Henryot re-issues a two-seat LXVI kennel, borrowing its architecture to alcove wood panels, ornate with grooved columns. Should the water heater be installed in an alcove or closet, the entire floor area must be covered by the panel. It's a musical alcove independent of the traffic and bustle of everyday. The first pitch requires a 20 metre rope with a pull-back line, and is belayed in an alcove round to the right which is a little awkward to get into. The complex, around 120 m sq, comprises a hall bordered by an alcove that may have been a throne-room and a bathhouse of three rooms. The rare forge in the village that is much commented upon by visitors needed repairing and the surviving village pump in its alcove still charms observers. A wall-mounted drinking fountain located in an alcove is preferred because it does not create a hazard for persons with visual impairments. Stepping through the revolving door and across the black and white tiles to our candlelit table in a discreet little alcove, I felt I could have been in Paris. They were nearly to the alcove, and she slowed to a creep as she now began moving the last few feet in an almost sideways gate, keeping her weight on her right leg. From the huge stainless steel wardrobe in his dressing alcove he takes the day's fresh white shirt, a charcoal pin-striped suit, and a burgundy silk tie. Bring in the excitement of the night, the glow of the city, and dress your room for dinner. Accent an alcove or wall, or go head-to-toe in colours as deliciously rich as figs and walnuts, as romantic as a stolen glance. Crossing the threshold he encountered the tokonoma or alcove that is positioned to greet all who enter. A hanging scroll is placed in the tea room's tokonoma, or alcove, together with an incense container and a vase. The alcove now houses the statue of John Keats, an English Romantic poet who studied at Guy's Hospital from 1815 to 1816 to become an apothecary. Over the years, he has bounced between girlfriends' apartments, condemned buildings and flophouses, and he has often ridden the subways all night, slept on a park bench or bedded down in a building alcove. Situated on the first floor of main house, the bedroom 'Albâtre' has a corner salon with sofa, fireplace, writing table, wardrobe, and bed set in an alcove with high vaulted ceilings. The background shows, dimly, a vaulted room or alcove, but van Mieris's hyperrealism trumps that trompe-l'oel depth. The 2008 grant allowed for repairs and restoration of the mosque's roof, ceiling, doors and windows as well as the mihrab, the ornate alcove that indicates the direction of Mecca. I remember walking into the parliamentary dining room and seeing Dief in the alcove to the left where Prime Ministers like to eat and feeling like I was now in authentic parliamentary company. Show More Sentences This heater is not designed to be embedded or installed in an alcove. During the first mission in July 2001, the international brick expert witnessed the inundation of the Maya Devi Temple archaeological remains and examined the character and structural stability of the alcove remains. Port Navalo-ideal location for this apartment with garden 150 meters from the beach including, entrance, living room, 2 bedrooms, 1 alcove, kitchen. In the lobby of the Bardessono hotel, which recently opened in Napa Valley, four alcove panels are filled with epiphytic air plants simply clipped onto metal rods. He based the niche on the Japanese alcove known as a tokonoma. The decorative object is given pride of place in an alcove built specially for it, called a tokonoma, and most Japanese homes, even those in Western style, have at least one. Examples from Classical Literature Seated near a pier table, on which a little kettle bubbled over a spirit-lamp, Albine intently watched the alcove curtains. Fleetwood's wrath with his position warned him against the dupery of any such alcove thoughts. I might talk easier too, if we could adjourn to the window alcove over there. It looked as if she was concealing the thoughts that made her rigid in the darkness of the alcove. Ben Aboo had tried to follow them, but he had been killed in the alcove of the patio. When he had gone, she turned to the Cardinal, who stood in the doorway of the alcove. Mrs. McVeigh arose, and with a slight bow to the dowager, passed into the alcove. This place is about five hundred yards west of the bridge in an alcove in the Archaean Rock which forms the Canyon wall. Toward the center back portion of the alcove is another low square masonry structure which may have been an altar. He had grasped in both hands the flower vase standing in the alcove. It was rather more than an alcove, being a fair-sized room heavy with rugs and hangings and soft, pillowed couches. Her dressing table with its triple mirror stood in an alcove. When, at that instant, he saw the curtain of the alcove slightly stirred. We'll have the bottle in the alcove at the head of the stairs. Five minutes later, Raoul was ushered into an ill-lit room where he at once recognized the good, kind face of Christine's benefactress in the semi-darkness of an alcove. The revel was at its height when a priest appeared, and withdrawing the young pair to an alcove, hung with purple velvet, he motioned them to kneel. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of alcove? Words that rhyme with alcove What is the plural of alcove? What is the adjective for alcove? What is the noun for alcove? Translations for alcove Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Alcoran alcopops alcopop Alcon alcoholysis alcohols alcoves Alcyone Aldebaran aldehyde aldehydes Alden 6-letter Words Starting With a al alc alco alcov