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• Past the point, the shore retires into a sequence of coves.From the entry retire
• The cove has hushed the battner; i.e. has killed the ox.From the entry battner
• The boat was much safer, during the storm, in the sheltered cove.From the entry sheltered
• A floating bog is terrorizing homeowners in a cove on Lake Marie in Antioch.2021 January 1, Richard J. Heggen, Floating Islands: an Activity Book, Richard Heggen. From the entry floating bog
• 'I'll find my own fencing cove or else vamp it to a pawnbroker.'2017, Jake Arnott, The Fatal Tree. From the entry vamp
• “The cove was blethering all gammon and pickles about yer Da'.2016, Roger Higgins, Billy Gogan, American. From the entry gammon and pickles
• 'Dimber cove, though, ain't he?'¶ 'Except his hair,' the other girl said.2013, Maria McCann, Ace, King, Knave. From the entry dimber cove
• "The land fairies say the pollution in the cove has been making all the sea creatures sick.2008, Donna Varnes, The Cove, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 271. From the entry merfamily
• A porkchop-shaped camping area is set along the south cove of 12-mile Sebec Lake.2004, Robert W. Sehlinger, Frommer’s Best RV and Tent Campgrounds in the U.S.A., 2nd edition, Wiley, →ISBN, page 405. From the entry porkchop
• This fact has been made note of by certain coves who make unleery gagers their prey.2004 September 21, Neal Stephenson, “A Subterranean Vault in Clerkenwell: Early April 1714”, in The System of the World (The Baroque…. From the entry unleery
• The cove ceiling had carved trusses with decorative detailing and pendills.2000, Anthony Mitchell Sammarco, Paul Buchanan, Milton Architecture, page 12. From the entry pendill
• We’d pull into a cove and the women would plead for a five-minute walk on the beach.1995, Paul C. Larsen, quoting Al Surprenant, “Don’t Give Up the Ship”, in To the Third Power: The Inside Story of Bill Koch’s Winning…. From the entry nauticalness
• A little slooplike vessel, long, low, lateen-rigged, had put out from a masked cove.1978, Magazine of fantasy and science fiction. From the entry slooplike
• "Come now, Benno my dimber cove," cried Jerry at last, "what's the game?1918, Jeffery Farnol, Our Admirable Betty. From the entry dimber cove
• A little scalloped cove where weedy creatures Trail in and out, wish-washing on the tide .1910, Florence Converse, A Masque of Sibyls, page 31. From the entry wish-wash
• We climbed up into the cove hardwood along a CCC path laid by unemployed boys not much older than Robin.2021, Richard Powers, Bewilderment, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 17. From the entry CCC
• At lower elevations, montane oak forests typically grade into cove forests, oak forests, or montane pine forests and woodlands.2014, Stephanie B. Jeffries, Thomas R. Wentworth, “Natural Community Overviews”, in Exploring Southern Appalachian Forests: An Ecological…. From the entry montane
• As if it's an intimate cove of my history and an accordion of memories lives here, only just beginning to unfold.2013 12, Lindsay Evelyn Hamilton, Lily Whites of Steel, Author House, →ISBN, page 308. From the entry accordion
• Small coves offer some potential as harbors, but often the local sharkfolk called Kaneano use those harbors themselves.2012, Amber E. Scott, Pathfinder Player Companion: Pirates of the Inner Sea, Paizo Publishing, LLC., →ISBN, page 7. From the entry sharkfolk
• She used to swim "skinny" in Sprague's cove in broad daylight, leaving her bathing dress on the float.2008, Kitty Crockett Robertson, Measuring Time - By an Hourglass, page 220. From the entry skinny
• Don't ask you to be a swell mollisher, sister, coves want Miss Laycock, don't look at your mug.1988, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Our Country's Good, act 2, scene 1. From the entry wap
• These "Doghole” coves were "not much bigger than a hole a dog might crawl into, squirm around and crawl out again."1987, Going Places, page 30. From the entry doghole
• The gouge is a hollow, round-nose chisel used to rough-cut blanks into cylinders and for making cove cuts.1985 April, Rosario Capotosto, “Become a Woodturning Expert: Part One”, in John A. Linkletter, editor, Popular Mechanics, volume 162…. From the entry gouge
• Last night his car horn down at the head of the cove had sounded patiently, callingly, for most of an hour.1957, Borden Deal, Dunbar's Cove. From the entry callingly
• You're a suspicious-looking cove, and you'll comerlongerme!1923 September 20, “Billings Does a Good Turn”, in Gippsland Times, page 3. From the entry comerlongerme
• "If you folks in the coves want the immunity of non-combatants, by Gawd! you gotter preserve the neutrality of non-combatants!"1911, Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree), The Raid Of The Guerilla^([sic]). From the entry gotter
• In the hills of Appalachia, in a cove that no living man will ever find, is a Mountain Ash unlike any other in the world.2011, Ruth Sims, The Legend of the Mountain Ash, unnumbered page. From the entry mountain ash
• A Bow Street Runner says "I knew a cove as talked the way you do – leastways, in the way of business I knew him!1951, Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman. From the entry whit
• I never see a cove togged out as he was,—tall hat, light sit-down-upons, and a short coat—wasn't it cut short! but in really bang-up style.1915, “Putting on the Screw”, in Caught in the Net, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, translation of Les Esclaves de Paris by Émile…. From the entry twig
• "Well, ma'am," remarked the Cap'n, dryly, as he seated himself in another chair, "I've waded across a cove wunst or twice at low water."1911, Holman Day, The Skipper and the Skipped. From the entry wunst
• Furthermore, multiple levels of ceiling cove lighting were rewired, then the fixtures rebulbed, as restorers say, returning the illumination to a glory not seen for 50 years, Mr.2009 February 12, Glenn Collins, “Restored to the Glamour of Its Vaudeville Days”, in New York Times. From the entry rebulb
• The spartina, which grows along a sheltered cove and makes up about 15 acres of the whole parcel, is what makes Arlington Marsh so dear, said William K.2007 November 7, Andy Newman, “Protecting a Wild Patch of City Marshland”, in New York Times. From the entry spartina
• Hollows were tributary to a cove or another type of sizable valley threaded by a creek or, in Pennsylvania, a “run,” and in Virginia, a “draft.”2003, John Alexander Williams, Appalachia: A History, page 113. From the entry draft
• Monte related to Johnnie Gilbert (even if he as a flash cove) because he chose to bushrange and never blamed anybody for driving him to it.1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 37. From the entry bushrange
• Divine, shin up them cliffs back o' the cove an' search fer water an' a site fer camp—the rest o' us'll have our hands full with the salvage.”1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October…. From the entry ourn
• The gilt lantern burned palely in the stairwell, but in the dining room the ordinary shadows deepened in the corners and hung like smoke in the coving of the ceiling.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN. From the entry coving

Meaning of cove

1. noun A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
2. noun A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.
3. noun A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds; bight.

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How do you use cove in a sentence?

Cove is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Past the point, the shore retires into a sequence of coves.”

What is a short sentence with cove?

“You're a suspicious-looking cove, and you'll comerlongerme!”

What does cove mean?

Cove means a hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.