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

After dinner, he sat down on a big davenport and fell into conversation with Political Columnist Arthur Krock, head of the New York Times's Washington bureau and one of the capital's most indefatigable diners-out.

From Time Magazine Archive

They climb onto the davenport and sit side by side, and Etienne says, “Where to tonight, mademoiselle?”

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