Example Sentences

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Platinum blond crabeater seals lounged on divans of drifting ice, basking in the sun.

From Scientific American • Mar. 14, 2023

Ms Busby alleges the two divans which made up the base of the bed were not properly fastened together and two "gliders" - or feet - were missing from the end of the bed.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2018

The job interview happened in a hotel lobby, in front of dozens of strangers, on a couple of chairs, near some tasteful divans.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2018

And Offred muses that handmaid gatherings look like "paintings of harems, fat women lolling on divans, turbans on their heads, or velvet caps, being fanned with peacock tails, a eunuch in the background standing guard."

From The Verge • Jun. 15, 2017

Locke’s bedroom is messy—books and clothes scattered on divans and low couches.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black