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furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy
there was only one piece of furniture in the room
they had too much furniture for the small apartment
How To Use article of furniture In A Sentence
- In the county of Aberdeen, in particular, every homestead had its reservoir of "Graith," [53] and the "Lit-pig," [54] which stood by every fireside, was as familiar an article of furniture in the cots of the peasantry, as the "cuttie-stool," or the "meal girnel. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
- You know that red mist thing where you find yourself punching some inoffensive article of furniture for no better reason than that you have just banged into it?
- She inhabited the suite of rooms in which the murder had been committed; her bedchamber was the same which had belonged to the late marquise; her bed was the same; the window by which she had fled was before her eyes; and everything, down to the smallest article of furniture, recalled to her the details of that savage tragedy. Celebrated Crimes (Complete)
- The only article of furniture in the antechamber was a wooden bench on which Pierre perceived two female patients awaiting their turn in the charge of a young hospitaller. The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete
- One article of furniture, which I took to be a cottage piano or melodeon, turned out, on raising the lid, to be a wash-stand, amply munitioned with water, towels, and a new piece of soap. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862
- A flowerpot is a necessary article of furniture without which no room is complete. A College Girl