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cove

[kohv] / koʊv /


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That first summer, BK could still live outdoors in a wire enclosure, swimming for exercise, with supervision, in a small stream cove.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 7, 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

There have been a number of similar rockfalls at the same cove, including a major landslip earlier this year, which occurred after days of heavy rainfall.

From BBC Mar. 3, 2024

BP’s purchase wouldn’t be the first time Lummi Nation has seen a massive corporation keen on this land adjacent to a coveted deep-water cove.

From Seattle Times Jan. 15, 2024

She had flown over a portion of the forest to a cliff, which led down to a sandy cove where boats often moored.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

It centers on a romantic home still in touch with its original design; across 8,000 square feet are carved stone columns, stained glass windows, arched doorways, colorful tile and coved ceilings.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 7, 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

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

Above, there was a coved and vaulted ceiling, glowing with pictured scenes, which affected Kenyon with a vague sense of splendor, without his twisting his neck to gaze at them.

From The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

From Astounding Stories, July, 1931 by Various

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




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