arbor

Example Sentences

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There the tribe has built a senior center and a shaded arbor for its ceremonial gatherings, including the making of “nupa,” the Miwok word for acorn soup.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2025

The garden sits at the top of a steep rockery with stairs leading to an entry arbor swagged with the sweetly fragrant pink blooms of that original ‘New Dawn’.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2024

One-story homes of concrete or mud brick dot the landscape in pastel clusters, some with grape arbor vines climbing their roofs, interspersed with the occasional small school or mosque.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2023

Her brother, my great-uncle, tended a huge arbor of grapes outside their Bakersfield home.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2022

They all might have been safe jumping in the water and letting the wildfire sweep past them, but there was an arbor over the pool.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz