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
The old woman thought she might no longer be relegated to the davenport in the dining-room, but did not complain when this breathtaking likelihood collapsed.
From Time Magazine Archive
We went back in the house—dim now with twilight—and sat by the window on a long davenport that had a sheet thrown over it.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
