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

For a moment, I got caught up in a trio with two ballerinas, building an invisible bower of flowered branches.

From New York Times

Years later, a fig tree from that bower flourishes in London, where a woman named Ada attempts to reconstruct her family’s difficult history before it’s too late.

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

In one, the woman waits in a bower for her lover, adorning herself, and the anticipation, so strong it hurts, comes through in the physicality and rhythms of the dance.

From New York Times