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

Tucked into plush wingback chairs, we were handed the drinks menu.

From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2022

He pointed to a candelabra on the windowsill behind a large wingback chair.

From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick