What's the difference between lounger and sofa?

Lounger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who lounges; ar idler.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thirty British tourists were among those killed in an attack in which many people were shot as they lay on sun loungers in swimsuits.
  • (2) The lower level rooms each have shady balconies and white-cushioned loungers on which to doze before a dip in the attractive pool.
  • (3) To his left, outside the Imperial Marhaba hotel, dead and dying tourists were lying amid bloody overturned sun loungers.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Empty sun loungers on the beach in Sousse.
  • (5) After 38 people were killed on their sun loungers , by the pool and in the hotel lobby, the Foreign Office changed its advice about the country to warn that more attacks are possible.
  • (6) Tony Blair is lying on a sun lounger soaked with the blood of hundreds of thousands of murdered Hutus.
  • (7) Indeed, despite the wider political drama, Germans continue to place their towels on Greek sun-loungers in droves.
  • (8) Forests of thatched parasols dotted near-deserted beaches, loungers remained stacked in orderly ranks.
  • (9) The restaurant-bar spills outside through glass doors to a wide terrace but best of all are the three top-floor family suites with huge decked terraces, sun-loungers and sweeping views.
  • (10) Even the designer sun-loungers around the pool’s edge, normally draped with prone “morning after” bodies, are half-empty.
  • (11) There's a lovely pool, plus spacious steam room, sauna and Jacuzzi, mosaic seating area with loungers, and poolside cafe.
  • (12) Eighty per cent of the people at that hotel are old.” Ben-Mohan ran to the scene, arriving to find the dead, wounded and terrified huddled amid upturned sun loungers.
  • (13) The sun-loungers are also being wheeled out across the UK, with Asda selling double the amount of suncare products it did last year, while sales of sun cream leapt 10% at Superdrug last weekend.
  • (14) Assuming Bayern return there, however, anyone who wants to look round might be faced with insurmountable security issues, particularly given the high-profile lapse in 1996, when a tabloid journalist managed to sneak into the swimming pool and place towels on all the sun loungers.
  • (15) Worried that the killer would return from his murderous spree to continue in the hotel, Dabbou placed a sun lounger over one wounded woman, hoping it would conceal her from the gunman.
  • (16) Once again, the concave, glazed form of the building was channelling the Nevada rays like a magnifying glass, to the extent they were melting the plastic poolside loungers and burning holes in guests' newspapers.
  • (17) What you may not know The “Walkie Scorchie” is not the first Viñoly building to raise temperatures – his Vdara hotel in Las Vegas, which also sports a concave glass facade, has melted sun loungers and singed newspapers.
  • (18) Decked terraces with stylish sun loungers look over the magnificent beach, named after its sand, so pale it's almost white.
  • (19) I went to Dubai and I remember sitting on a sun lounger and in the same hotel Sunderland were there, running up and down the beach doing fitness.
  • (20) Yet if we Britons spend our holidays hungrily gobbling up our annual quota of words and ideas from a sun lounger, doesn’t it show that, despite worrying literacy figures, we do still want to read, and learn, and explore fictional worlds?

Sofa


Definition:

  • (n.) A long seat, usually with a cushioned bottom, back, and ends; -- much used as a comfortable piece of furniture.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
  • (2) Just by adding a sofa, table and chairs and some plants, we have turned this house into a home, and solved the housing crisis for one of the 6,500 rough sleepers or thousands of other homeless people in London.
  • (3) When the news about the attack in Woolwich broke, by pure coincidence Ross Caputi was crashing on my sofa.
  • (4) At the famed Winter Palace , formerly the home of the Egyptian royal family, ornate gold-and-glass chandeliers hang over empty brocade sofas, awaiting visitors.
  • (5) Today The Great British Bake Off (BBC1), inspired – for no special reason – by Gogglebox, which seems to have two new sofa critics.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Residents sit on a sofa on a balcony of a damaged building in Aleppo’s al-Shaar neighbourhood in Syria.
  • (7) When my wife Mia finally gets home, I hand the baby over and drop exhausted on to the sofa.
  • (8) Since furanoses in the envelope form are analogous (in some ways) to half-chair or sofa conformations and since lactones with six-membered rings probably have half-chair or sofa conformations, the results indicate that beta-galactosidase probably destabilizes its substrate into a planar conformation of some type and that the galactose in the transition state may, therefore, also be quite planar.
  • (9) Many iPad users see the device as a more relaxed device than a computer: something to be kept close at hand on the sofa or even in bed, with its instant-on nature.
  • (10) "I've ended up with everything I could want – a pool table, a table football table, dining table and chairs, sofas, carpets.
  • (11) Christine Bleakley, Chiles's co-presenter on The One Show, had been linked with a possible move to ITV to join Chiles on the GMTV sofa.
  • (12) The couple, who are Polish nationals, claimed he had fallen off a sofa.
  • (13) I arrive at my hotel, a friendly, functional place with a crackling fire and big sofas.
  • (14) A bookish teenager regarded as the smartest of the Murdoch brood, James endured an awkward adolescence in the public eye and was famously photographed asleep on a sofa at a press conference while working as a 15-year-old intern at his father's old paper, the Sydney Mirror, a picture the rival Sydney Morning Herald gleefully ran on its front page the next day.
  • (15) So, yes, Daft Punk are very famous indeed, but the two Frenchmen sitting side by side on a sofa in a luxurious Paris hotel suite – Thomas Bangalter, 38, and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, 39 – are very much not.
  • (16) Clash of the sofas: BBC v ITV An age-old rivalry with plenty of previous, gone are the days where you'd sigh when you found out a match was on ITV not BBC.
  • (17) We hear a lot about homes, and rightly so, yet we hear next to nothing about homelessness, about the people forced to sleep on the streets, in hostels and squats or on the sofas of friends and family.
  • (18) After all, who needs private detectives to follow Tom Watson when you can find out about his office playlist and Portal 2 marathons from the comfort of your own sofa?
  • (19) The online auction service has been redesigned with a focus on bigger images and a touchscreen interface, making it the perfect way to browse from the sofa.
  • (20) He then took aim at the viral picture of Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway sitting in the Oval Office in a strange, overly comfortable manner, shoes on the sofa.

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