cove
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The ship is moored in an island cove, about 100 meters from a section of coastline, said Steven Pereira, president of the local government.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
This tucked-away cove is one of the most iconic areas of the lake, known for its turquoise waters, steep granite cliffs and dense pine forests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025
The croc was independent and apparently a “confirmed bachelor,” a characteristic he made clear “during his earlier years at a crocodile farm,” the cove said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2024
Kenzie said his belongings had been found by police and coastguard at a cove accessed by boat.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2024
Dad, Sookie, and Mr. P ate cookies and decided to take a walk out back to get a better look at the cove.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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Other areas include a country-style chef's kitchen with a wide center island, a den and a lavish master suite with coved ceilings and rows of picture windows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2015
Though it is state-of-the-art, the gallery looks splendidly 19th-century, with a coved ceiling and an overhead window that lets daylight in.
From Economist ● Sep. 18, 2014
There are 26 rooms featuring coved ceilings, cornices and natural light from skylights in 18 of the galleries.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 15, 2012
This led by the late 1960s to works known as light encasements, squares of monochrome plastic with neon lights embedded along the edges, intended to be installed in white rooms with coved corners.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2012
Tancred was ushered into a spacious and rather long apartment, panelled with old oak up to the white coved ceiling, which was richly ornamented.
From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
Among those who left their mark are a group believed to have worked on the coving in 1968 and the earliest, a plasterer, T Harwood whose signature is dated 1843.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
This day of proceedings was characterized by those coving the trial as tense, as LaPierre repeatedly "tried to insert justifications for expenditures which Sheehan elicited in his questions."
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2021
I like to think the old face is still underneath like a piece of buried Victorian coving, snarling and bantering to itself behind the immobile corporate façade.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2010
In the bratini and kovsh the bulging form of ornament, the coving up of the bottoms of the bowls, and the use of twisted lobes are very common.
From Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Esther Singleton
A broad plaster coving is the principal feature of the simple molded cornice, and one notes the much used double belt formed by two projecting courses of brick at the second-floor level.
From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins
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