bower

Example Sentences

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A bower of roses, fragrant herbs and bodacious blooms might set one gardener’s heart aflutter, while another finds the sweet spot among spiky agaves, exotic palms or a bountiful row of summer raspberries.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024

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

Both stories of the gabled, 1,500-square-foot house, for instance, are framed at the end of the curving bower like a portrait in a cameo necklace.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2019

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

From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2018

Friends of the couple had built a kind of bower from supple willow branches and now they were decorating it with blossoms and ferns.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry