wing chair

Example Sentences

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Louise Penny stepped onto the stage of the small Theatre Lac-Brome in Knowlton, a village in Quebec’s postcard-pretty Eastern Townships 70 miles southeast of Montreal, and settled into a leather wing chair amid applause.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021

For her room at the 2019 Kip’s Bay Show House, designer Young Huh paired a pillowy 18th century Gustavian banquette with a hefty Italian marble-topped dining table and an antique wing chair.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 5, 2021

This proves not to be true as she casually tells us, over tea in a wing chair, the creepy story of her upbringing by a mother who believed herself to be possessed.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2019

“Mom was on the wing chair in the dim living room. Her hobbled body followed the slips and contours of the chair as if woven to it.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2015

But that didn’t mean Ophie was alone: a little girl with pale blond braids and a pinafore sat curled up in a wing chair, reading a book.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland