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Example sentences for "cove"

Lexicographically close words:
couverte; couvertes; couverts; couvre; couvrir; coved; coveite; coveitise; covenable; covenant
  1. Schneck saw it growing in a wooded cove near a cavern called Flory's Cave in Johnson County, Illinois.

  2. The tree usually grows in such poor situations that it never acquires a large diameter, and it is only when a tree is found in a cove or in richer and deeper soil that it grows to a large size.

  3. At the head of the cove stood a fishing hamlet, containing some twenty huts.

  4. There was a snug little cove in one of the Shetland Islands.

  5. Can't you be fond of a cove without squeedging and throttling of him?

  6. I think a cove had better have to do with lions than them little creeturs, for they're always flying back in your face when you least expect it.

  7. How can a cove stand talking in the street with his master's prad a wanting to be took to be rubbed down, and his master up to every individgle thing that happens!

  8. What do you take a pleasure in ruining a cove for?

  9. Oh, what a hard thing it is that when a cove has once gone a little wrong, a cove's own father should be always a throwing it in his face behind his back!

  10. Oh here's a dreadful go for a cove that's got a master wide awake in the neighbourhood!

  11. The Chicken hoarsely whispers Mr Toots that he's as stiff a cove as ever he see, but that it is within the resources of Science to double him up, with one blow in the waistcoat.

  12. Why do you take and choke a cove who has never done you any harm, neither of you?

  13. You're enough to drive a penitent cove mad!

  14. You haven't any right to call a poor cove names, Captain.

  15. This ejaculation seemed a drop of comfort to the miserable Grinder, who shook Mrs Brown by the hand upon it, and implored her with tears in his eyes, to leave a cove and not destroy his prospects.

  16. At the claim in the cove the fortunate holders of a private treasury of gold had lost no time.

  17. The cove was a placer claim, rich as mud in gold, and with everything needed at hand.

  18. The cove became a theatre of curiosity, envy, and covetous longings.

  19. Sold to the knowing young cove in the neckcloth.

  20. A murder, Dick, as is going to be done by a capital cove as I spotted over a month ago.

  21. The citizens of the Windy Cove country have a saying that when Jud is sober and in a good humor and has money, he is a fairly good fellow, if he is not crossed in any way.

  22. Jud Hardy, who lives at Windy Cove on the river some eighteen miles "back" from Corinth, had been looking forward to Fair time for months.

  23. With one clean, swinging blow the man from Windy Cove was lifted fairly off the ground to fall several feet away from his senseless victim.

  24. Stationing himself near the door, the man from Windy Cove blocked the way for everyone who wanted to pass either in or out of the building.

  25. He came to a strip of land running into the sea; another cove lay beyond.

  26. In the sand of the cove were many imprints of naked human feet.

  27. Like a burglar, he crept along the beach to the bushy promontory that hid the cove where the foot-prints were, he wiggled through the bush, he slid down to the third beach, and crouched behind a large rock.

  28. This here cove he useter have hisself rubbed all over wif rosum every mornin', then he'd go to school an' kick up ole boots.

  29. When the detective cove comes, an' I've told him 'bout somethin'.

  30. Aw, don't let a measly publishing cove cast you down, sir.

  31. Yessir, they dearly loves to club a swell cove hif they think 'ee his arfter their lydies.

  32. Hain't that an 'ell of a nime for a sporting cove like me?

  33. Every Sunday, then, Constans made his way through the town barriers immediately upon their unclosing, and betook himself to a wooded river-cove about a mile south of the town.

  34. It may be so," said the old man, sombrely, "but the graybacks should not have forgotten already the lesson we taught them at the Golden Cove the year of the red comet.

  35. Garth, the swineherd, reported their landing at the Golden Cove an hour before sunup.

  36. It attains a large size, is of a fine green color, and, "from the manner in which the outer leaves cove over the interior ones, blanches well without having to be tied together.

  37. The leaves are erect, of a peculiar ashy or bluish-green hue, spoon-shaped, and clasp or cove over and around the head in the manner of a hood or cowl.

  38. We heaved to behind a headland about two miles to the east of it, out of view of any vessel which might be in the cove or at the mouth, and waited for darkness.

  39. Towards dusk we approached the entrance of the cove whence I had sailed the brig of which I was now in command.

  40. If the buccaneers had had warning of what was happening behind them and hastened back, or if we should miss them and they returned to the cove before us, they would at any rate be unable to recapture their vessel, lacking their boats.

  41. The cove was about two miles long, and after rowing half the distance I caught sight of a dark shape before me, as nearly as I could judge, almost at the same spot as my brig when I cut her cable.

  42. Two weeks later, one morning when Mr. Cameron had decided that he would not go out upon the lake, Lee Henly paddled a light canoe out across Forest Lodge Cove and practised with his casting-rod.

  43. They left the cove for half an hour, then tried again.

  44. So there was little danger of Old Muskie's leaving Forest Lodge Cove that summer unless he was caught or killed or died the mysterious death that comes to the great fish of the streams and lakes.

  45. In this cove there seemed to be no fish at all, although elsewhere in the lake fish were plentiful.

  46. Tuesday morning the boys were again fishing in Forest Lodge Cove at daybreak.

  47. There was but a slope to descend, a sheltered cove to reach, and Snowcap would be given back to his kindred.

  48. The one that loved her most was the perch with green fins that attended school every day in the academic shade of the big rocks in the quiet cove about a mile away.

  49. At any rate, the little oyster was dead now; and the bereaved perch with green fins must have known it, for he swam up and down his native cove disconsolately.

  50. I'd trust her anywhere in this cove in any kind of weather.

  51. Before he sat down where she was going to put him, he stood stoopingly, and frowned at the waters of the cove lifting from the foot of the lawn that sloped to it before the house.

  52. By this time Lobster Cove was in the full tide of lunching and being lunched.

  53. The village of Cove Creek, on the line between Garland and Hot Springs counties, marks the entrance to this valley.

  54. The Cove is a valley commencing among the mountains at no great distance to the east of the hot springs, and containing a small rivulet which enters the Washita six or eight miles below Keisler's.

  55. About twenty miles west of Philadelphia and Harrisburgh, Cove Hill, the North and South mountains, and the other eastern ranges of the Alleghany, are all based upon metalliferous limestone.

  56. And we thought the boys might have a bandits' cove under the hills," added Cleo.

  57. At one point, in a little cove behind the willows, I surprised some schoolgirls, with skirts amazingly abbreviated, wading and playing in the water.

  58. Green Cove Spring is said to be like a waterfall reversed; a cataract rushing upward through a transparent liquid instead of leaping downward through the air.

  59. She'd have seen us if that cove hadn't given her the shilling.

  60. I had to put him out the other night--Bill Evans, the cove that wears the blue Melton.

  61. There's but one sort of cove I can't abide.

  62. I also heard him tell the same young gentleman a queer yarn about a buried treasure which is supposed to be concealed near a little cove on the southern extremity of the island, called `Janubio.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cove" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    covenant between; cover closely; cover the; cover their; cover them; cover tightly; cover with; covered chair; covered dish; covered mountains; covered over; covered wagon; covered with; coverts black; coverts blackish; coverts brown; coverts white