bower
Example Sentences
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A bower of roses, fragrant herbs and bodacious blooms might set one gardener’s heart aflutter, while another finds the sweet spot among spiky agaves, exotic palms or a bountiful row of summer raspberries.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024
As it did in Robert Longbottom’s 2019 production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s musical “Into the Woods,” which coincidentally also follows a group of rowdy, mixed-up characters into a supernatural bower.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2022
In one, the woman waits in a bower for her lover, adorning herself, and the anticipation, so strong it hurts, comes through in the physicality and rhythms of the dance.
From New York Times • May 24, 2021
Visiting Barbara Kingsolver on her farm in Appalachia feels like entering some form of enchanted bower.
From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2018
The sycamores formed a tangled bower through which the sun shone brightly, speckling the ground.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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