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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

But south of the tunnel, Highway 1 still parallels a stretch of towering cliffs overlooking a sheltered cove.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 25, 2026

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

From BBC Nov. 2, 2024

Since colonization, the shore of the deep water cove has exploded with dirty energy production and other manufacturing, supporting an aluminum smelter, oil refineries and a liquefied petroleum gas facility.

From Seattle Times Oct. 28, 2023

He pointed to a cove on the map.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

The space: A checkered-tile hallway leads to this top-level condo complete with coved ceilings and a dramatic wall of exposed brick.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2021

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

All are put to good use, as are the coved recesses that allow for overlapping scenes.

From Seattle Times Jul. 16, 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

It has a coved roof, with a large, flat, oblong space in the centre of the ceiling.

From New Italian sketches by John Addington Symonds

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

As at Hope Lodge a broad plaster coving is the principal feature of the simple cornice.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins

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




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