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cove

[kohv] / koʊv /


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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

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

But south of the tunnel, Highway 1 still parallels a stretch of towering cliffs overlooking a sheltered cove.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 25, 2026

Kenzie said his belongings had been found by police and coastguard at a cove accessed by boat.

From BBC Nov. 2, 2024

I did not feel in my holiday mood to-day, and I had no wish to go off with Jasper to the Happy Valley and come to the cove and throw stones in the water.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Highlights include an entry with a sweeping staircase, living room under coved ceilings, formal dining room, office and movie theater.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 28, 2020

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

All are put to good use, as are the coved recesses that allow for overlapping scenes.

From Seattle Times Jul. 16, 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

Figure 54 shows an arrangement of rooms along a narrow ledge at the top of the talus, where the cliff wall is not coved or concave, but convex.

From The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Cosmos Mindeleff

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

I think I shoud some marshas helen a pray the Drom and coving the collas out of the pub. 

From Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement by George Smith

The couch was overturned, with its coving and pillows strewn about.

From Astounding Stories, July, 1931 by Various




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