nook
Example Sentences
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Koch, for instance, sleeps "suspended like a bat" while Glover fits himself into a narrow nook between space equipment and the ceiling of the spacecraft.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
During business hours, they were welcome to use the store’s water fountains, its bathrooms, its electricity, to read in the reading nook, or nod off, if need be.
From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026
A little over a decade ago, I felt God in an omelet bar nestled inside the breakfast nook of a Turkish hotel.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026
Several were sleeping in a nook by the stairs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
She makes the most of what she has, filling the window nook with houseplants of all kinds, a bonsai weeping willow, a towering ficus with drooping fronds, a fiddle-leaf fig.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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