potting shed
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Confined indoors with little Christopher, Milne sat in a potting shed, feeling "gloomy" as the rain poured down, according to Brandreth.
From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025
“I think Peter rather liked the fact that Charles would kneel down in the dirt of the potting shed and ask her to marry him. There’s something intensely moving about their middle-aged love.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2023
She lives in a small room — a former potting shed that still smells like “loam and rotting leaves” — attached to the garage of a friend of her brother’s.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2020
The architecture extends out into the garden, with a potting shed that Peter designed and tucked into the side garden.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2017
She admired the wisteria that wrapped around the potting shed, the trumpet vine on the arbor, and the big grove of bamboo in the back.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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