Sample Sentences for
niche
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niche as in:  it is a niche product

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  • Each species in the rainforest occupies a unique ecological niche, ensuring a delicate balance within the ecosystem.
    niche = role for which it is suited
  • Gamers are a niche audience for this product.
    niche = small, specialized group of customers
  • Africa has parasites so particular and diverse as to occupy every niche of the body: intestines small and large, the skin, the bladder, the male and female reproductive tracts, interstitial fluids, even the cornea.  (source)
    niche = specialized area
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  • Ali thinks there's a niche in the market for a family vehicle, said Mr. Crouch.  (source)
    niche = smaller market within a larger market
  • Corinthian columns and niched saints.†  (source)
  • His serenity was but the array of wild flowers niched in his ruin.†  (source)
  • For that fact had suddenly slipped into place and become real for her as the niched marker on a whist tablet slips round with the pressure of your thumb.†  (source)
  • She could only remark, as a general principle observed in the varnishing trade, that much depended on the quarter from which the lady under consideration was accredited to a family so conspicuously niched in the social temple as the family of Dorrit.†  (source)
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niche as in:  in a niche of the wall

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  • Candles burned in niches in the walls.  (source)
    niches = shallow recessed shelves
  • They climbed a steep trail where niches for toes and fingers had been worn into the yellow sandrock after centuries of use.  (source)
    niches = a shallow recess or hole
  • But now there came from out the niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head.  (source)
    niche = smaller area within
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  • Like Risa, Connor finds his niche by accident.†  (source)
  • On both sides, hollow niches lined the walls.  (source)
    niches = shallow recesses (each like a single space built into the wall to hold something)
  • Maester Luwin set the lamp in a niche by the door and fiddled with its wick.†  (source)
  • The Kremlin wall at this point was a beehive of niches for the ashes of the Party faithful.†  (source)
  • Randolph backed all the way into a zombie niche, leaving a trail of blood from his wounded hand.†  (source)
  • In the niches where the bowling pins used to stand, several fires burned, which couldn't have been very safe.†  (source)
  • A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.†  (source)
  • They were raised to be certain persons, to do certain things, to occupy certain niches.†  (source)
  • You stuffed me in that niche but didn't have the sense to hold on to it yourself.†  (source)
  • Part of the terrace was paved, part planted with flower-beds and arabesques of dwarf box; taller box grew in a dense hedge, making a wide oval, cut into niches and interspersed with statuary, and, in the center, dominating the whole splendid space rose the fountain; such a fountain as one might expect to find in a piazza of southern Italy; such a fountain as was, indeed, found there a century ago by one of Sebastian's ancestors; found, purchased, imported and re-erected in an alien but welcoming climate.†  (source)
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