pergola

noun

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Recent Examples of pergola The yard includes a poolside pergola and a build-in fire pit. — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 29 Jan. 2025 Outdoor space: Behind the house is a deck covered by a pergola, and around the corner is a side yard with grass and a small vegetable garden. — Angela Serratore, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025 Designed with distinct spaces that flow easily between indoors and outdoors, the house has a patio that divides the bedroom to the West from the other living spaces to the East, sliding glass doors, and pergola trusses or redwood between the pool and house. — Clio Chang, Curbed, 13 Jan. 2025 There’s also an outdoor kitchen and seating area underneath a pergola and water fountains. — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pergola
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pergola
  1. arbor
  2. roof
  3. canopy
  4. ceiling
  5. tent
  6. bower
  7. awning
Noun
  • Outside, the ocean-facing pool and spa are surrounded by a stone patio, a fire pit, a bocce ball court, a chicken coop, and a lemon arbor.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2025
  • In order to be a tree city, the community must adhere to standards laid out by the Arbor Day Foundation such as creating a public tree care ordinance, and an arbor day celebration.
    — Graham P. Johnson, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2024
Definition of arbor
Noun
  • Some people may have inflamed tonsils (the round masses in the back of the throat), white spots or red streaks in the throat, and red spots on the roof of the mouth.2 Neck stiffness usually involves muscle tension or dull aches in the neck and pain or an inability to make certain movements.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Nero Wolfe, who is loath to set foot outside his brownstone on West Thirty-fifth Street, is obsessed with orchids and dedicates four hours a day to tending to them in his plant rooms on the roof.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of roof
Noun
  • Larger groups will appreciate the overwater two-bedroom villas and oasis overwater two-bedroom villas that feature large living spaces and private pools, making for the ideal canopy on which to compose unforgettable memories.
    — Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The architects gave body to that belief with an undulating wooden ceiling that starts above the stage, rolls out over the lobby, and terminates in a bright up-pointed canopy like the peak of a yellow baseball cap.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of canopy
Noun
  • The 85,000 annual ceiling for new H-1B petitions is low, the equivalent of only 0.05% of the U.S. labor force.
    — Stuart Anderson, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The basement flooded 14 times, and there were so many leaks in the attic that mushrooms sprouted through a bedroom ceiling.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2025
Definition of ceiling
Noun
  • Be aware that sheds, storage facilities, mobile homes, and tents are not safe alternatives.
    — NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Finish and Serve Top with cheese; tent loosely with foil.
    — Jessica Saari Christensen, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of tent
Noun
  • Adam—great in the bower, but a bit of a bore—speaks in paeans, but the snake speaks boldly, sensuously.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Come summer, the walled garden is a joyful place with its historic Kentish bower and formal planting, featuring fragrant roses, peonies and irises to replica a typical English garden.
    — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of bower
Noun
  • The front patio features a bar, flat-screen TVs, fire pits and a retractable awning.
    — McKenzie Rankin, Axios, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Especially in older homes, awnings may have been added before the development of air conditioning to keep things cool during the summer months.
    — Katelyn Squiers, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Feb. 2025
Definition of awning

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