(n.) A recessed portion of a room, or a small room opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library.
(n.) A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower.
(n.) Any natural recess analogous to an alcove or recess in an apartment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most coveted seats line the sidewalk, but the cavernous indoor space, lined with vintage beer posters and well-worn wooden alcoves, is an easy spot to settle in for the long haul.
(2) Step by selfish step we have arrived at the latest item causing outrage: a bed of metal spikes inside an alcove of a fancy new development on Southwark Bridge Road in London.
(3) The wheels on our bikes had barely stopped turning by the time we'd drained the first pint of Guinness in front of a log fire in one of its many snug alcoves.
(4) Desai has identified a hospital back entrance that the patient will not recognise and organised a screened alcove to be equipped like a sitting room for waiting.
(5) KCBS’s reporter witnessed water pouring from the church ceiling above the outside alcoves from a height of about 30ft.
(6) Writers hid in alcoves as conversing cleaners and security guards walked past inches away.
(7) Legend has it that the three brothers who built this castle were told to sacrifice one of their wives, and the chosen wife was bricked into an alcove, which still remains.
(8) It is for the defenders, not the invaders," Harnam Singh told the Guardian, sitting in an alcove near the shrine, surrounded by seminary students in white robes and orange or blue turbans.
(9) He had an alcove in his dressing room that had a curtain over it and he would take you behind the curtain".
(10) There were no staff around in the room, just the girls in there and one or two other people so I suppose the privacy we got was from the curtain in the alcove but, I have no doubt that he went and told everybody else what he did afterwards".
(11) Top tip: After walking the main looped trail, stretch your legs another half a mile down to the Alcove House.
(12) Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed – Proverbs 19:17 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me – Matthew 25:35 St Mary’s cathedral, home of the Catholic archbishop of San Francisco , has been scrambling to explain itself after local media revealed that it had installed water sprinklers above its doorways that were dousing homeless people seeking shelter in the alcoves there.
(13) As the helicopter drones droned above them, Langdon and Sienna cowered in the secret alcove of the Pitti Palace.
(14) Guided tours climb ladders and crawl through tunnels to Cliff Palace and Balcony House, constructed in stone alcoves high above the canyon floor.
(15) Grafted animals showed an early, however, transient amelioration of behavioral deficits in a T-maze alternation task and they performed with a long-lasting improvement in the alcove-test.
(16) Rats were trained in three different avoidance tasks (uphill, step-down and alcove) and tested 24 h later.
(17) When the group gathered around a 13th-century Anatolian alcove, one man asked: “Is that Sunni?” “They didn’t have Sunnis and Shias back then,” responded an elderly woman.
(18) Indeed during the first few years of my life, one of those Perrot paintings, now in the Musée D'Orsay in Paris, was the sole representative of art in my little world, hung above the alcove in the sitting-room where I used to hide during Doctor Who .
(19) The wide street, lined on each side with garage-like concrete alcoves that serve for shops, was strewn with rubbish and, the Jocks discovered, eight separate IEDs.
(20) In a second small-box passive avoidance experiment, i.e., the alcove-avoidance task, opposite results were attained: Subreinforcing stimulation attenuated learning whereas neither suprathreshold stimulated animals nor control animals showed impairment of learning.
Bedroom
Definition:
(n.) A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room.
(n.) Room in a bed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wright said he had recently shown a family moving from London around a four-bedroom house with a paddock, on sale for £375,000.
(2) Historically, councils and housing associations have tended to build three-bedroom houses, because that has always been seen as a sensible size for a family home.
(3) With Air Sentinels in the bedroom and living room for airborne collections, and a Sample Vac for collections from living room carpet and bedroom mattress, immunochemical quantifications of each were made with various radiometric assays with polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies.
(4) The mosquitoes coming to bite in bedrooms were monitored with light traps set beside untreated bednets.
(5) A property may be considered overcrowded if two children above 10 of the opposite sex have to share the same bedroom.
(6) In a barely-noticed submission to the government's Environmental Audit Committee, the London borough of Hounslow, the airport's near neighbours, said the airport was: breaching the World Health Organisation's guidelines for the levels for noise in people's bedrooms; breaching the EU guidelines for levels of nitrogen dioxide; and breaching British standards on the noise experienced by children in classrooms.
(7) In a wardrobe of the back bedroom they discovered a 9mm Glock pistol and in a plastic container under the bed there were more than 300 rounds of ammunition.
(8) Bargain of the week Charming but teeny-tiny one-bedroom period cottage, £55,000, with williamsonandhenry.com .
(9) He gave the example of a one-bedroom flat in Camberwell, south London, which was on the market at £360,000.
(10) That included "a higher minimum wage; stopping the abuse of zero-hours contracts; skills and careers for all our young people; banks working for businesses again; energy bills frozen; 200,000 homes built a year by 2020; power devolved; the bedroom tax abolished; and our National Health Service restored".
(11) The bedrooms have sea views over the Sound of Sleat, which you can cross during the summer on the original Skye ferry, which carries just a few cars at a time across the Kylerhea narrows.
(12) There are currently 800,000 more one-person households in New York than there are studio and one-bedroom apartments.
(13) The following levels were obtained: (1) For the patient to be discharged from the hospital, the maximum residual radioactivity should be less than 0.51 GBq if the distance from the patient in bedroom is 50 cm or more and the ages of her children are all over one year.
(14) Some social landlords are refusing to rent properties to tenants who would be faced with the bedroom tax if they were to take up a larger home, even when tenants provide assurances they can afford the shortfall.
(15) I lived on Southwark Bridge Road before every patch of it was developed into posh apartments – a small, one-bedroom flat will now set you back £500,000.
(16) LCP said one- and two-bedroom flats in the centre of the city were popular with corporate renters and international students, and that demand was fuelling rental growth.
(17) His story - which he was led through on Monday by his lawyer - is that he was outside his house cleaning Sadie, his dog, when the girls came down the road; that he took Holly and Jessica into his house because Holly had a nosebleed; took them upstairs into the bathroom where Holly sat on the edge of the full bath and he gave her tissues to staunch it; took Holly into his bedroom, to sit on the bed while Jessica used the toilet, took Holly back into the bathroom where she could finish cleaning up her nosebleed; accidentally slipped beside Holly and the full bath, and heard a splash; froze in panic; placed his hand over Jessica's mouth because she was screaming, 'You pushed her'.
(18) The dark, luxury air in the silent bedrooms of empty riverside apartments, their identical curving blocks clustered in threes and fours, grim and silent as gill slits, will be theirs.
(19) Steps wind down a rugged rock face to a bedroom, while light floods in from round skylights in the domed ceiling above.
(20) Kerstine Appunn and her boyfriend took three and a half months to land a spacious two-bedroomed flat in Prenzlauer Berg, one of Berlin’s pricier inner-city districts, where organic cafes populate the pretty, tree-lined streets.