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

Use freestanding panels, lattices or an arbor softened with an appropriately sized vine — which can range from robust to delicate.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2023

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

“It’s doing very well. It covered the arbor in only two years. I think it’s the water.There’s nothing finer than one of these desert pools.”

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer