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Example sentences for "coving"

Lexicographically close words:
covetousness; covets; covey; coveys; covies; cow; coward; cowardice; cowardise; cowardize
  1. The dome [of this, what he calls a cemetery] springs at various unequal heights, from eight to nine and ten feet on different sides, forming at first a coving of eight sides.

  2. And the good folk made some mistake last week, going up the country, and left a keg of old Holland cordial in the coving of the wood-rick, having borrowed our Smiler, without asking leave.

  3. In the coving are Cupids, and on the walls hang some interesting pictures.

  4. The ceiling of this magnificent room is coved—the coving receding for the cornice.

  5. At the angles of the coving is the monogram of the Duke of Devonshire, within a garter, and surmounted by the Ducal coronet.

  6. As at Hope Lodge a broad plaster coving is the principal feature of the simple cornice.

  7. A broad plaster coving is the principal feature of the simple molded cornice, and one notes the much used double belt formed by two projecting courses of brick at the second-floor level.

  8. He was talking to Coving as though they had years--not as though their time had run out.

  9. Coving can't work with salt and baking soda.

  10. Rayburn Coving was probably the best rocket-fuel man in the world.


  11. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.