AWNING in a Sentence

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16 example sentences for AWNING, such as:

1. The room, shadowed well with awnings, was dark and cool.
2. The two women sat under the little awning, the man was perched above, behind them.
3. I was looking back round the awning of the cart, and wondered what business it was of his.
4. A few saddle horses and mule teams were hitched outside the wooden awning of Bullard's store.
5. He had made a large bath covered in with an awning in one of his ponds which had not yet quite disappeared.

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 Meanings and Examples of AWNING
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awning
 n.  roof-like cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind
Classic Sentence:
1  A few saddle horses and mule teams were hitched outside the wooden awning of Bullard's store.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
2  The children all scampered off to the awning, and they stood there in a line, gazing upon the intruding lovers, still exchanging their vows and sighs.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  The father and son went out on to the terrace under the shelter of the awning; near the balustrade, on the table, among great bunches of lilacs, the samovar was already boiling.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  He had made a large bath covered in with an awning in one of his ponds which had not yet quite disappeared.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  A pleasure-boat with striped awning was going by.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 113. The Past.
6  I was looking back round the awning of the cart, and wondered what business it was of his.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
7  The two women sat under the little awning, the man was perched above, behind them.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
8  The whole town had turned out to see them off and they stood, close packed, under the wooden awnings of the stores on Peachtree Street and tried to cheer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  The wooden awnings cut off most of the winter daylight and the interior was dim and dingy, only a trickle of light coming in through the small fly-specked windows high up on the side walls.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
10  She glanced with interest along the new brick and limestone house-fronts, fantastically varied in obedience to the American craving for novelty, but fresh and inviting with their awnings and flower-boxes.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
11  Fifth Avenue had become a nightly torrent of carriages surging upward to the fashionable quarters about the Park, where illuminated windows and outspread awnings betokened the usual routine of hospitality.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
12  They had white domestic awnings in front, and the country people hitched their horses to the awning-posts.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI.
13  The room, shadowed well with awnings, was dark and cool.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
Example Sentence:
1  Boggs rode up before the biggest store in town, and bent his head down so he could see under the curtain of the awning.
2  Boggs rode up before the biggest store in town, and bent his head down so he could see under the curtain of the awning and yells: "Come out here, Sherburn! Come out and meet the man you've swindled."
3  There were empty dry goods boxes under the awnings, and loafers roosting on them all day long, whittling them with their Barlow knives.