cove
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It marked the second death this summer at Crescent Bay Beach, a popular quarter-mile cove in Laguna Beach that drawsin bodysurfers and divers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Diablo Canyon uses 2.5 billion gallons of ocean water for cooling each day, discharging hot water directly into the nearby cove.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The silver lake, the tropical cove and the swinging hammock loom large in summer’s mythology because they answer our desire for enclosure and immersion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Kenzie said his belongings had been found by police and coastguard at a cove accessed by boat.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2024
They all burst from their sleeping cabins and dashed for the cove, but halted on the path when it became clear that the shouting was only excitement.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
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The space: A checkered-tile hallway leads to this top-level condo complete with coved ceilings and a dramatic wall of exposed brick.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2021
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
The pyramidal pediment above this opening projects above the upper cornice into a coved ceiling, which would appear from the rendering of the drawing to form an apse above the semi-circular stage.
From Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration by Joseph Quincy Adams
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
The heads are long, erect, largest at the top, and taper towards the root,—the exterior leaves clasping or coving over and around the head in the manner of a hood, or cowl.
From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr
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
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