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canopy

[kan-uh-pee] / ˈkæn ə pi /


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During the hottest days, they set up a canopy umbrella over their stall to shield them from the sun.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

A few officers were gathered outside a gray pop-up canopy with its sides partially in the road.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 27, 2026

Under a chaotic canopy woven with vines and studded with fearsome spiked stems, the group crossed streams, waded through mud and picked off dozens of leeches.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

A council has set out plans to increase tree canopy cover, create more nature reserves and provide more green spaces.

From BBC Jun. 21, 2026

We can’t even rely on the sky—a canopy of branches and leaves block the sunlight.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

Their thick bark and elevated canopies offer protection, while smaller fires clear vegetation, recycle nutrients, and create conditions that help new sequoias grow.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

I saw canopies of Iraqi flags, bodies out every window, everyone dancing to a faint hip-hop pulse.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

They also used instruments that measured CO2 levels in tree canopies every hour and sensors attached to tree trunks that tracked tiny changes in trunk size throughout the day.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

Some of the bays on the rooftop are partially covered with canopies.

From BBC May 29, 2026

At night, in her bed, she rides in the belly of Captain Nemo’s Nautilus, below the gales, while canopies of coral drift overhead.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The city seal is a tree and residents say the canopied streets are major contributors to the quality of life.

From The Wall Street Journal May 12, 2026

The address is now a canopied driveway of a large adjacent house.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2024

Surrounded by hundreds of police officers and supporters, they hunker down inside a canopied structure made of blue tarpaulin sheets that serves as a tent.

From BBC May 22, 2023

I want her world to be canopied by moonlight and the breathtaking Milky Way.

From Washington Post Feb. 1, 2023

Six canopied four-poster beds are lined up and draped with rich tapestries the color of our signature flowers.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

Under the canopying smoke of London or Edinburgh, even amongst the beautiful fields of England or Scotland, there is nothing to be made of him.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

The latter had become known at the Nest, solely by the circumstance that the object which had so lately canopied aristocracy in St. Andrew's, Ravensrest, was now canopying pigs up at the farm house.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore




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