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How to use awning in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Awning means a rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind. Example: “The station has three long platforms, mostly covered in awnings, the island connected with the main platform (which is used by the mails in both directions) by a subway.”

Examples of awning by meaning

nounA rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.

  • The station has three long platforms, mostly covered in awnings, the island connected with the main platform (which is used by the mails in both directions) by a subway.1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 265
  • But instead, the distinctive ironwork and glass platform awnings have been carefully refurbished, while making them compatible with the overhead wiring.2022 December 14, Robin Leleux, “A royal occasion as heritage projects honoured: Kettering”, in RAIL, number 972, page 56
  • A few hundred yards across the pampa from where Chilean soldiers patrol the boundary, stern-faced, the Peruvian border police sit under wind-torn blue awnings, eyeing the Chileans warily.2026 May 23, John Bartlett, “Chile's MAGA-inspired border control”, in National Public Radio, Washington, D.C.: National Public Radio

More sentences with awning

  • Under their awnings the women of the town were selling boubliks, thread and the like.2003, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by David McDuff, The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue, London: Penguin…. From the entry boublik
  • One of the balanghais had an awning covering a platform on which sat an important-looking figure.1996, E. P. Patanñe, The Philippines in the 6th to 16th Centuries, page 172. From the entry balanghai
  • She was over there, crouched despairingly beneath the awning of that shop.1923, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter IV, in Leave It to Psmith. From the entry despairingly
  • The familiar yellow awning of your favorite bodega beckons.2025 November 17, Anna Kodé, “New York’s Bodegas Are Here to Stay”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry bodega
  • It has silver wheels, white leather seats, open sides, and a kind of cream canvas awning on the top.2017, Sophie Hannah, Keep Her Safe: A Novel, HarperCollins, →ISBN. From the entry club car
  • A more viable solution was a mirrored portable awning that was built into a scaffold sitting just outside the window.2013, Robert F. Lee, How to Build a (Semi) Solid Wall Yurt, [United States]: Published by CreateSpace for Robert F. Lee, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry yurt
  • It has got the lot, this, underneath its hinged awning: eggs any way, sausage, old-fashioned burgers and builders' tea.2001 March 30, Stephen Moss, “Meals on wheels”, in The Guardian. From the entry builder's tea
  • Brendon stood on the corner of 87ᵗʰ Street and Stony Island Avenue beneath a green canvas awning now cupcaked with a layer of white.2015, Joe Kilgore, A Farmhouse in the Rain, Winchester; Washington: Top Hat Books, published 2016. From the entry cupcake
  • The backstage — really just a back porch shielded by curtains — just got that awning; the stage itself was finally refloored.2007 July 21, Campbell Robertson, “Well West of Broadway, the Stage Is Their World”, in New York Times. From the entry refloor
  • As the owner of this sailboat, I fuss about on deck, lashing down oars and fishing rods, pigsticks and awnings, for what might be a bouncy overnight passage.1997 July, Yachting, volume 181, number 7, page 70. From the entry pigstick
  • It has been little altered over the years save for the addition of a platform awning which rather obscures the arcaded entrance to the booking hall.1957 August, H. P. White, “The Tonbridge-Hastings Line and its Traffic”, in Railway Magazine, page 529. From the entry obscure
  • Large office blocks and shopping streets are being put up with not even an awning to protect the head of the shop-goer from the sweltering Persian sun.1935, The Royal Engineers Journal, volume 49, page 88. From the entry shop-goer

Meaning of awning

  1. noun A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.
  2. noun That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.

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Questions about awning in a sentence

How do you use awning in a sentence?
Awning is used as a noun. For example: “The station has three long platforms, mostly covered in awnings, the island connected with the main platform (which is used by the mails in both directions) by a subway.”
What is a short sentence with awning?
“The familiar yellow awning of your favorite bodega beckons.”
What does awning mean?
Awning means a rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.

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