(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.
Cove
Definition:
(n.) A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.
(n.) A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain.
(n.) A concave molding.
(n.) A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight.
(v. t.) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
(v. t.) To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
(n.) A boy or man of any age or station.
Example Sentences:
(1) Updated at 2.56pm GMT 12.51pm GMT They also think the worst is over at the Cove House Inn, according to Steven Morris.
(2) FIVE MORE FRENCH COASTAL GEMS Marseille grotto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A 40-minute walk from Marseille’s Luminy university campus, Calanque de Sugiton, the most picturesque of the city’s rugged, limestone coves has blue-green waters, twisted pine trees and a narrow island-rock to swim out to known as Le Torpilleur.
(3) This paper reviews the first seven days of the Station's role at Anzac Cove, during which time this essentially inexperienced medical unit treated and evacuated an estimated 2700 wounded Australian and New Zealand soldiers.
(4) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
(5) The transient decrease in left circumflex coronary artery blood flow during atrial contraction (atrial coves) was examined in open-chest, heart-blocked dogs.
(6) Right diastolid flow runoff, including the cove late in diastole, resembled left circumflex runoff.
(7) Port Gaverne , a little cove near Port Isaac always described as "quaint", is a good place to watch seals (and occasional basking sharks, dolphins and porpoises), go fishing or rummage in rock pools.
(8) A potholed gravel road runs to a campsite at the mouth of the Mattole river and from there you can wander south down the coast for 25 miles before you come to the next road, at Shelter Cove.
(9) The ceremony takes place at a black Catholic Church in the Prairie Hamlet of Frilot Cove: the priest imagines Collins arriving in heaven and resolving to 'take this place apart', before the Hail Mary is sung in French, and accordions play a zydeco standard entitled 'I'm Coming Home' as the coffin is laid in the ground.
(10) They landed on the beach at Anzac Cove at 11 a.m. on 25th April 1915, and remained on a 20 metre stretch of beach through eight months of the Gallipoli campaign.
(11) 'Something I think people will like is that it's a girl (not a boy) who is adventurous, strong and brave' said Bookworm88, in her review of Dead Man's Cove by Lauren St John 'What I loved most was the chance to read about children whose lives are very different from mine", wrote Lottielongshanks of Sky Hawk, by Gill Lewis We'd like to find out about more books that show different lifestyles and break the stereotypes.
(12) If history isn’t your thing, the park also offers plenty of coastal scenery, including eight miles of hiking trails to secluded coves.
(13) According to local boatmen, the Rothschilds use this military-style craft to whisk their guests at a speed of 50 knots directly from the airport to a corner of north-east Corfu where the secluded coves and remote luxury villas have become a discreet playground for the rich and powerful to mix business and pleasure.
(14) Fifteen dolphins were taken on Sunday from the cove via sling and transferred to the Taiji harbour sea pens and several captive facilities in Taiji, the group said on its Facebook page .
(15) "Our losses in 2012 were devastating," said Matt Schlapp, a consultant with Cove Strategies.
(16) Photograph: Steven Morris Across the road from the Cove House Inn, at Brandy Cottage, Shaun Souster was mopping out his porch after seawater poured in.
(17) steven morris (@stevenmorris20) They've reopened the storm shutters on the Cove House Inn.
(18) Marks & Spencer is calling on volunteers living near beaches such as Eastney (near Portsmouth), Exmouth (Devon), Chesil Cove (Dorset) and Hayle Towans (Cornwall) to help clean and survey the affected areas during its Big Beach Clean-up between 24 and 30 April.
(19) Porth Iago and Porth Ferin, near Aberdaron, Gwynedd Porth Iago beach, Wales Photograph: Rob Smith These two coves are separated by a short walk along one of the newest parts of the Wales Coast Path.
(20) Designated the casualty clearing hospital, it was called a Casualty Clearing Station on the beach at Anzac Cove in the Gallipoli campaign.