bower

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2021

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 • Aug. 24, 2021

Visiting Barbara Kingsolver on her farm in Appalachia feels like entering some form of enchanted bower.

From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2018

A friend posted a photo of a botanical bower of a bedroom in Beauport, officially called the Sleeper-McCann House.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 3, 2018

The two women had lived together 'on the far side of the campus in “The Cottage” a shingled bower that occupied a place in school mythology akin to Lincoln’s log cabin in national legend.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides