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UK
/ˈɔːnɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈɑnɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɑnɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun
How To Use awning In A Sentence
- Fun is the secret ingredient of a lot of great companies, but 10 years of economic prosperity, a resurgent stock market, and the dawning of the dot-com have created other business priorities.
- The aristocracy are made to look like buffoons; the women swoon, the maids are oversexed, and the artist himself - the center of everyone's fawning attention - plays the dandy.
- The Roman satirists savagely expose the fawning homage heaped upon the childless rich.
- I recall her fawning over him some years ago when he did some extra-special marriage+ thingy. "Mike Huckabee has leaped ahead..."
- Along with the grunion, these are the only marine fish known to fully emerge from water solely for the purpose of spawning.
- The velarium, or awning, is advertised in all the inscriptions yet found which give notice of public games. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
- It is easy to see that this was the logical response to the dawning realisation of death as the fate of us all.
- Once a year the up-river migration of the salmon heading for their spawning grounds provides a great feast.
- Certainly, the fawning coverage has got to stop. Times, Sunday Times
- Everyone I've seen in London today has got bleary eyes, and is yawning.