commodious

in a sentence

I worked at a commodious green-topped table placed directly in front of the west window which looked out over the prairie.†  (source) Cather, Willa, My Antonia

This house yields to its landlord over two hundred a year, or rather more than the rent of a commodious mansion in South Kensington.†  (source) Shaw, George Bernard, An Unsocial Socialist

She had a small print of a Whistler, the famous Mother, and she hung it in a corner of the spare room because she thought it was generally unlocked at and because she liked the formal balances and truthful muted colors and because the picture was so dashingly modern, the seated woman in mobcap and commodious dark dress, a figure lifted out of her time into the abstract arrangements of the twentieth century, long before she was ready, it seemed, but Klara also liked looking right through the tonal components, the high theory of color, the theory of paint itself, perhaps—looking into the depths of the picture, at the mother, the woman, the mother herself, the anecdotal aspect of a woman in a c†  (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

The hangman, an anonymous, leathery gentleman who had been imported from Missouri for the event, for which he was paid six hundred dollars, was attired in an aged double-breasted pinstriped suit overly commodious for the narrow figure inside it-the coat came nearly to his knees; and on his head he wore a cowboy hat which, when first bought, had perhaps been bright green, but was now a weathered, sweat-stained oddity.†  (source) Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, 1966

Incommodious, you might say.†  (source) Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures, 2009

The site fixed upon at the representation of the insurance companies, and as being as central a spot as any other on the globe, was one of the broadest prairies of the West, where no human habitation would be endangered by the flames, and where a vast assemblage of spectators might commodiously admire the show.†  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, Earth's Holocaust, 1844

With such commodiousness of situation, these two learned persons sat themselves down, each in his own domain, yet familiarly passing from one apartment to the other, and bestowing a mutual and not incurious inspection into one another's business.†  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

Now, the first time Ahab was perched aloft; ere he had been there ten minutes; one of those red-billed savage sea-hawks which so often fly incommodiously close round the manned mast-heads of whalemen in these latitudes; one of these birds came wheeling and screaming round his head in a maze of untrackably swift circlings.†  (source) Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851

It was an old-fashioned place, moreover, in the moral attribute that the partners in the House were proud of its smallness, proud of its darkness, proud of its ugliness, proud of its incommodiousness.†  (source) Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859

I have secured rooms in the residence of a Major C. D. Humphrey, which although not luxurious, will be commodious enough for my purposes.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

When we halted before the house of the Rector, a small and incommodious cabin, neither handsome nor more comfortable than those of his neighbors, I saw a man in the act of shoeing a horse, a hammer in his hand, and a leathern apron tied round his waist.†  (source) Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, 1871

This incident made a considerable impression on my mind, and contributed with other circumstances to indispose me to a permanent residence in the city of Vanity; although, of course, I was not simple enough to give up my original plan of gliding along easily and commodiously by railroad.†  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Celestial Railroad, 1843

Adams was by then established in his commodious new residence in Amsterdam on the Keizersgracht.†  (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002