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cove

[kohv] / koʊv /


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Aesthetics aside, I wish the charging port was not hidden in the left-side cove.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

This tucked-away cove is one of the most iconic areas of the lake, known for its turquoise waters, steep granite cliffs and dense pine forests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025

The croc was independent and apparently a “confirmed bachelor,” a characteristic he made clear “during his earlier years at a crocodile farm,” the cove said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2024

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

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2024

But it was hard not to laugh, and Fred sulked at the bottom of the cove when Selkie finally let him go.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

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

There are 26 rooms featuring coved ceilings, cornices and natural light from skylights in 18 of the galleries.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 15, 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

Its lofty coved ceiling rested on a cornice of rich frieze of carved work, supported on polished pilasters of oak.

From The Golden Dog by William Kirby

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

In the bratini and kovsh the bulging form of ornament, the coving up of the bottoms of the bowls, and the use of twisted lobes are very common.

From Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Esther Singleton

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

From Astounding Stories, July, 1931 by Various




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