window box

Example Sentences

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Surrounded by pavement but longing for a garden, her grandfather built a window box that sat outside on a flat roof that could be accessed only through a bedroom window.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2024

So that's the third major principle, thinking about and involving yourself in the natural world in some way, even if that's just having a window box if you can't get out.

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2023

Farzana Chaudry from Watford spent "four long nights" knitting a Gareth Southgate and three lions to adorn her front window box.

From BBC • Jul. 11, 2021

“Whole worlds are contained within a lovingly planted terra cotta pot, a window box or a jungle of plants grown indoors.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2020

With her yellow dress and dark silk headscarf, she matched the black-eyed Susans sprouting in her apartment’s window box.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros