Sample Sentences for
arbor
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arbor as in:  shaded arbor

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    She stood in the garden on a warm afternoon, the arbor heavy with blooming honeysuckle.  (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
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    She stops beside an arbor alive with the sound of bees.  (source)
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    Yonder, not far, was a grape arbor Mr. Garner made.  (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants
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    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.  (source)
    arbor = framework that supports climbing plants
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    The arbour was an arch in the wall, lined with ivy; it contained a rustic seat.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use arbor.
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    Leafy green vines draped the arbors and the grapes were ready to drop.  (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
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    To and fro I paced before this skeleton—brushed the vines aside—broke through the ribs—and with a ball of Arsacidean twine, wandered, eddied long amid its many winding, shaded colonnades and arbours.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use arbors.
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    It is a beautiful, restored Provencal farmhouse made of stone, set up on the Luberon hills, fruit trees and an arbor at the front door outside, terra-cotta tiles and exposed beams inside.  (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
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    He raised his head and looked over at the arbour of bougainvillaea.†  (source)
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    Now the city covered the shore as far as Catelyn could see; manses and arbors and granaries, brick storehouses and timbered inns and merchant's stalls, taverns and graveyards and brothels, all piled one on another.  (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
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    There are bowers and arbours in these villa gardens and young men in shirt-sleeves on ladders trimming roses.†  (source)
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    Under the arbor, the deaf old gentleman from Fayetteville punched India.  (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
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    Will your Royal Highness be pleased to open Pulverulentus Siccus at the fourth page of his Grammatical garden or the Arbour of Accidence pleasantlie open'd to Tender Wits?†  (source)
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    It was exciting to move to Baltimore from the relatively small town of Ann Arbor.  (source)
    Arbor = the name of a place
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    IT'S ARBOR DAY!  (source)
    ARBOR = a holiday when people are encouraged to plant trees
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan  (source)
    Arbor = the name of a place
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    "Sweet reds," he cried in fluent Dothraki, "I have sweet reds, from Lys and Volantis and the Arbor."  (source)
    Arbor = the name of a place
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    She lived a few miles away in the Arbors, a fancy development of Tudor houses with a country club, pool, and golf course.  (source)
    Arbors = a neigborhood
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    He was moving to Ann Arbor.  (source)
    Arbor = the name of a place
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    Rich and functional, they lived in a big house in the Arbors, where up until the year before, she'd been the ideal daughter, pulling straight As and lettering in field hockey.  (source)
    Arbors = a neigborhood
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    By night, he'd slip out of Ann Arbor, for that town's opposite number.  (source)
    Arbor = the name of a place
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    This someplace turned out to be a huge house in the Arbors, at the end of a cul-de-sac.  (source)
    Arbors = a neigborhood
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    A repeat killer of elderly women in Ann Arbor and Kalamazoo, Michigan.  (source)
    Arbor = the name of a place
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    "The Arbors," I said.  (source)
    Arbors = a neigborhood
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    Then there was this fancy restaurant in Ann Arbor where I got a job waiting tables.  (source)
    Arbor = the name of a place
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    "Okay," he said to me one night, as we sat on the back deck rail at a party in the Arbors, a neighborhood just down from my own, "what's that about?"  (source)
    Arbors = a neigborhood
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