All 5 Uses of
niche
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- He felt the old mattress then, where all the years of Rocky's life had made contours and niches that Tayo's bones did not fit: like plump satin-covered upholstery inside a coffin, molding itself around a corpse to hold it forever.†
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- When the shadows were gone, and the cliff rock began to get warm, the frogs came out from their sleeping places in small cracks and niches in the cliff above the pool.†
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- The deer made beds in shallow niches deep within the thickets where the oaks grew tall and made canopies of limbs and branches.†
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- They climbed a steep trail where niches for toes and fingers had been worn into the yellow sandrock after centuries of use.
Chpt All *niches = a shallow recess or hole
- Only his brain moved, wet and heavy against the contours of his skull, favoring curvatures of bone and concave niches.†
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Definition:
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(niche) a smaller market within a larger market -- such as the market for scissors designed for people who are left-handed
or:
a role for which someone is especially well-suited
or:
a shallow recess, cranny or crevice