hassock

Example Sentences

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A hassock of grass cradled his back as he looked up.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2017

Jackson sat down again, and I perched on a hassock between brother and sister, separated by the glass top of a low table.

From The Guardian • Feb. 4, 2016

Poor Nixon wouldn’t put his shoes up on a hassock unless he covered it with a towel, because it was White House furniture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 3, 2015

The Dallas store has already stocked up with a $350 rhinoceros-shaped leather hassock, $300 pipes made from bruy�re roots and $40,000 elephant guns inlaid with gold and platinum.

From Time Magazine Archive

Normally she’d start spinning fantasies about an octopus’s garden and curtains of kelp and trout on the hassock but she’s giving me nothing.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson