davenport

Example Sentences

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One day in January, near the turnstile at the exit of the 125th Street subway station, something caught my eye: a sepia-toned photograph that showed what looked like three siblings sitting on a davenport.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2020

She and her brothers, she wrote, had grown up in Onalaska, Wis., and she had loved that davenport.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2020

We’d sit on the davenport, helping Grandmom make dinner.

From MSNBC • Oct. 9, 2015

The old woman thought she might no longer be relegated to the davenport in the dining-room, but did not complain when this breathtaking likelihood collapsed.

From Time Magazine Archive

This very morning von Rumpel inspected a fifteenth-century davenport and supervised its installment onto a railcar meant for Marshal Goring’s hunting lodge.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr