cove
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Diablo Canyon uses 2.5 billion gallons of ocean water for cooling each day, discharging hot water directly into the nearby cove.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Aesthetics aside, I wish the charging port was not hidden in the left-side cove.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
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
On a promontory above Puget Sound, a Douglas fir with arms bent at right angles stands above a quiet cove, where shellfish would have been gathered, long before this place was settled by newcomers.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2023
They stopped to refill with fresh water, dropping anchor in a cove on the island of Karkara.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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Another highlight comes downstairs, where a game room with an extravagant wet bar features murals, coved ceilings and polished concrete floors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2022
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
Figures recalling the ancient triumphs and possessions of Venice, in days when she sat dishonored and despoiled, crowded the coved roof, the painted cornices and pediments.
From The Marriage of William Ashe by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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
In the bratini and kovsh the bulging form of ornament, the coving up of the bottoms of the bowls, and the use of twisted lobes are very common.
From Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Esther Singleton
The couch was overturned, with its coving and pillows strewn about.
From Astounding Stories, July, 1931 by Various
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