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cove

[kohv] / koʊv /


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It marked the second death this summer at Crescent Bay Beach, a popular quarter-mile cove in Laguna Beach that drawsin bodysurfers and divers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

That first summer, BK could still live outdoors in a wire enclosure, swimming for exercise, with supervision, in a small stream cove.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

The croc was independent and apparently a “confirmed bachelor,” a characteristic he made clear “during his earlier years at a crocodile farm,” the cove said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2024

There have been a number of similar rockfalls at the same cove, including a major landslip earlier this year, which occurred after days of heavy rainfall.

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2024

I understood why Maxim disliked the path and the cove.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Upstairs, coved ceilings top a master suite complete with a sitting area and fireplace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2020

Though it is state-of-the-art, the gallery looks splendidly 19th-century, with a coved ceiling and an overhead window that lets daylight in.

From Economist ● Sep. 18, 2014

All are put to good use, as are the coved recesses that allow for overlapping scenes.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2012

This led by the late 1960s to works known as light encasements, squares of monochrome plastic with neon lights embedded along the edges, intended to be installed in white rooms with coved corners.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2012

These coved ceilings were introduced into England in the middle of the 17th century.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

Among those who left their mark are a group believed to have worked on the coving in 1968 and the earliest, a plasterer, T Harwood whose signature is dated 1843.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025

This day of proceedings was characterized by those coving the trial as tense, as LaPierre repeatedly "tried to insert justifications for expenditures which Sheehan elicited in his questions."

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2021

I like to think the old face is still underneath like a piece of buried Victorian coving, snarling and bantering to itself behind the immobile corporate façade.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2010

The couch was overturned, with its coving and pillows strewn about.

From Astounding Stories, July, 1931 by Various

As at Hope Lodge a broad plaster coving is the principal feature of the simple cornice.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins




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