davenport

Example Sentences

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One day in January, near the turnstile at the exit of the 125th Street subway station, something caught my eye: a sepia-toned photograph that showed what looked like three siblings sitting on a davenport.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2020

She and her brothers, she wrote, had grown up in Onalaska, Wis., and she had loved that davenport.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2020

We’d sit on the davenport, helping Grandmom make dinner.

From MSNBC • Oct. 9, 2015

Ed couldn't get around very well in those days, so he spent most of his time lying on the davenport while his mother read the letters to him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Music spirals out of the radios, and it is splendid to drowse on the davenport, to be warm and fed, to feel the sentences hoist her up and carry her somewhere else.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr