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Example sentences for "nook"

Lexicographically close words:
nonunion; nonvoting; nony; nooan; noodles; nooks; noon; noonday; noone; nooned
  1. Evenings in a sandy nook by the river's edge, watching the stars come out above the water.

  2. We decided that somewhere we should find a suitable wooded nook where we could sequester ourselves for the night.

  3. In the retired nook that they came to they seated themselves, while the spring breeze murmured through the light leaves above them, unsuspicious of any woe in the minds of these two young persons.

  4. There was no certainty as to the hour of Lance's advent, for he had not named a time, and into that far-off nook where she lived the lightning of the telegraph never penetrated.

  5. At this moment, a countless multitude, furnished with complex apparatus, are ransacking every nook of nature, and plucking trophies, and the world with honoring attention reads their reports.

  6. If a man could travel to every nook of the creation he might discover whether there were such a hell or not.

  7. But how does it happen that he comes to Rodeck this time, this small forest nook which offers neither room nor comforts?

  8. Keep the old forest nook in good order for me as heretofore," he concluded.

  9. The Prince loves his old forest nook so well.

  10. Illustration] The party made a strict search through every nook and corner of the garden, but it proved to be a fruitless one: not the least trace of any one could be found.

  11. She told me she first went and pried into every nook in the ship, where she had seen such things, could we get at them, as would make us very happy.

  12. Nook Cottage, Bolton-by-Bowland, died a prisoner of war in Germany January, 1918.

  13. One who his Scripture Guide has quite forsook Makes her an idol, and her praises sings In warmest strains; he hears in every nook Of her domain a thousand different things Proclaim her Godship, which to him much pleasure brings.

  14. O, may thy peaceful Arts still flourish round, And happiness in every nook be found!

  15. The influence of his kindness over them was so great, that he never came forth, without the children running out from every nook and corner of the streets to ask his blessing or kiss his robe.

  16. Then, finding his solitude no more a solitude, he resolved to leave the Etzel, and bury himself in some nook far from the habitations of men.

  17. For why wilt thou say thou art an Athenian, and not rather name thyself from that nook alone into which thy wretched body was cast at birth?

  18. But being made entirely of iron, they by no means disappeared, and in almost every village one could be found in some nook or corner as readily as this was found by Tim.

  19. Each nook and each object revived a memory, and simultaneously modified it.

  20. Moreover, they could hear some drops of rain falling on the trees, though none reached the nook in which they had ensconced themselves.

  21. There was not a nook or corner that he did not know or could not tell of.

  22. Philip found an untenanted nook and they ensconced themselves therein.

  23. Born at Nemi, in that yet savage nook among the Alban hills, he belonged to the people and was still near to the soil.

  24. Nor was there a single corner for solitary reflection, a nook of gloom and mystery, where one might kneel and pray.

  25. And, as a background to this sorry, mournful nook of life, there arose a fragment of an ancient aqueduct whose arches, half fallen and opening on to space, alone interrupted the flat line of the horizon.

  26. The local habitation of the lost family is a nook in the Great American Desert--a nook in a desert twenty-five times the size of England!

  27. Brick darted from his post, swept like a dipping swallow across the ravine, and snatching up the rope-ladder from its nook under the boulder, scurried down into the granite chamber.

  28. At last he tore himself away, retraced his steps as cautiously as he had conic, and flung himself upon the pony left waiting at a sheltered nook far from the cove.

  29. In oppressive silence they skirted Turtle Hill and emerged from the horseshoe bend, finding in a sheltered nook the three ponies that Wilfred had provided at nightfall.

  30. She soothed him again without a word, and then said to the officer, who was searching every nook and cranny in the room: "Shall you be obliged to turn me out of here, or may I stay a few nights?

  31. Tis all in ruins now; and the choughs and stares are building and brooding in the chimney nook where I nursed him.

  32. I make no grand discoveries, but I occasionally come upon a quiet little nook of character which excites esteem.

  33. A little manufacturing village, sheltered in a nook among the hills and moors which stretch from the heart of Yorkshire into the heart of Lancashire, it bears the vivid impress of its situation.

  34. He must remain coy in his nook within the wall till he might see the lady's lapdog run across the orchard.

  35. Immediately he took his way to her lodging, and left his master in his nook by the wall.

  36. I might sit then of the rushes, let be the stools, or in a fieldy nook amid the wild flowers.

  37. The woman addressed languidly roused herself from the half-sheltered nook of the forest in which she and her child had taken refuge.

  38. In the mean time, Prank, with the cards in his hand, went to the eave of the barn, I thrust them up under the thatch, and took out of the same nook a flask of whiskey.

  39. This girl did not fear to visit the dreaded region, where danger lurked in every nook and beneath every tuft of leaves.

  40. As though I did not know la pistole, I, who knew every nook and cranny of the prison!

  41. Therefore, I followed him without a word, to a retired nook of the garden, formed by the junction of two walls and screened by some rubbish.

  42. I turned my eyes--a little dimmed by looking up at the frosty light--towards a great wooden beam in a low nook of the building near me on my right hand, and I saw a figure hanging there by the neck.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nook" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alcove; angle; apex; asylum; bay; bend; bifurcation; bight; cache; cant; chamber; chevron; coin; concealment; corner; cove; cover; covert; crank; cranny; crook; crotchet; cubbyhole; cubicle; deflection; den; dugout; elbow; fork; foxhole; habitation; hideout; hiding; hole; hook; inflection; knee; lair; niche; nook; point; quoin; recess; recession; refuge; retreat; sanctuary; snuggery; stash; swerve; veer; vertex; zag; zigzag