SOFA in a Sentence

Learn SOFA from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

241 example sentences for SOFA, such as:

1. I had to sleep on the sofa.
2. They all sat round him on the sofa.
3. They moved from the table to the sofa.
4. The bedclothes were draped over a sofa.
5. I sat down on the sofa next to Barbara.

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 Meanings and Examples of SOFA
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sofa
 n.  an upholstered seat for more than one person
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Well, after such a journey you must indeed be needing rest, so you shall lie upon this sofa.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
2  The room had now been set in order, the sumptuous feather bed removed, and a table set before the sofa.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
3  Next, she took a seat upon the sofa, drew around her her merino gown, and sat thereafter without moving an eyelid or an eyebrow.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
4  'A meal would not come amiss, certainly,' observed Bazarov, stretching, and he dropped on to a sofa.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  'Stay, I'm coming with you,' cried Bazarov, pulling himself up suddenly from the sofa.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  He threw himself on the sofa, clasped his hands behind his head, and remained without moving, looking with a face almost of despair at the ceiling.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  On a leather-covered sofa, a lady, still young, was half reclining.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
8  She got up from the sofa, and carelessly drawing a velvet cape trimmed with yellowish ermine over her shoulders, she said languidly, 'Good-morning, Victor,' and pressed Sitnikov's hand.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
9  You were in too great a hurry to move on to the sofa.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  Bazarov suddenly turned over on the sofa, bent a fixed dull look on his father, and asked for drink.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
11  Anna Sergyevna swiftly crossed the room, and sat down in the armchair near the sofa on which Bazarov was lying.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
12  They moved from the table to the sofa.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: IV
13  They all sat round him on the sofa.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: IV
14  I smiled contemptuously and walked up and down the other side of the room, opposite the sofa, from the table to the stove and back again.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: IV
15  They will all be sitting in the drawing-room, and he with Olympia on the sofa.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: V
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
16  The cat lay on the sofa, washing itself.
17  He reclined on the sofa reading a magazine.
18  He was lolling on the sofa in the shadows near the fire.
19  His newspaper was slipped out when he got to sleep in the sofa.
20  I sat down on the sofa next to Barbara.
21  Tired from her walk she slumped onto the sofa.
22  The bedclothes were draped over a sofa.
23  The new sofa was bigger than the old one, so they had to rearrange the rest of the furniture.
24  The sofa will serve as a bed for a night or two.
25  I had to sleep on the sofa.
26  You can arrange this sectional sofa as you need.
27  This sofa has a two tone finish which makes it not only functional but also adaptable to any contemporary interior design.
28  In inclement weather, I like to curl up on the sofa with a good book and listen to the storm blowing outside.
29  Lying idly on the sofa while others worked, Reggie denied he was slothful: "I just supervise better lying down.".
30  Two sofas placed back to back in the centre of a space can often define the divisions of space very well.