wing chair
Example Sentences
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He called his son-in-law “Meathead” and his wife “Dingbat,” and would snap at anyone who dared occupy his faded orange-yellow wing chair.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2023
Louise Penny stepped onto the stage of the small Theatre Lac-Brome in Knowlton, a village in Quebec’s postcard-pretty Eastern Townships 70 miles southeast of Montreal, and settled into a leather wing chair amid applause.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021
More and more often, I settle into a shabby, cat-clawed wing chair with the day’s newspapers and periodically snort “Harrumph!” or grumble that the world is going to hell in a handbasket.
From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2021
This proves not to be true as she casually tells us, over tea in a wing chair, the creepy story of her upbringing by a mother who believed herself to be possessed.
From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2019
From her green wing chair, she could see everyone going almost anywhere in the house.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
