bower

Example Sentences

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If you have been there for a festive brunch on the graceful patio with its bowers of bougainvillea, you may understand.

From Los Angeles Times

In the 1980s, MacKenzie was down in the Mosaic Terrace, there was still some statuary, and old rose bowers and irises were in bloom.

From Washington Post

The one to avoid is the sweet autumn clematis, which produces large, fragrant bowers of tiny white blossoms in late summer but seeds madly and invades natural areas.

From Washington Post

You look back at gardens full of rose bowers, wisterias, lilacs and mock orange and think earlier generations valued this sensory delight more than we do.

From Washington Post

It is marvellous to think of these works as having been made not in some bower but in the midst of life.

From The New Yorker