wingback
Example Sentences
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Velvet wingback chairs flank a fireplace and a stained-glass window obscures the parking lot outside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
The album was “Transference,” its cover a grainy seventies tableau — a boy slinking low in a golden wingback chair, viridian curtains pooling behind him, a table lamp casting an almost aggressively orange glow.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2025
“You have to take them back to your office,” said Washington, 46, as she sat, cross-legged, on a wingback chair at the Spence School on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2023
Sounders wingback Jimmy Medranda was called for the foul in the 30th minute for swiping his left leg and stepping on the foot of Orlando midfielder Nicholas Gioacchini in the box.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2022
Now she sits in the wingback chair near the fire, her head back, her eyes staring at something I can’t see.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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