How To Use Settee In A Sentence
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We chose to sit on a comfortable settee rather than on hard chairs or impractical looking stools.
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The set of at least eight chairs, two settees, and four stools was originally in Worsborough Hall in Barnsley, West Riding, Yorkshire.
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While dockside or at anchor, the back of the helm seat may be flipped forward to make a U-shaped settee for entertaining.
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The 1869 New York City Register listed Fiske as a manufacturer of ornamental ironwork; fountains, vases, statuary, settees and chairs, and cast-iron and wire railings, iron stable fixtures, copper weathervanes.
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There is a navigation station between the head and the settee and a double quarter berth cabin aft along the port side.
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One night we were sitting on the settee when he held my hand.
The Sun
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Even the best brocade wears out in time, and the delicate rose and blue coverings of the formal settees and wing armchairs had been mended and remended until they would stand repair no longer.
Sweet Danger
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When she turned, Harry was seated on the settee appearing rather at home.
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Between the chairs and the settee was a wooden box.
Ruby
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No jumping up for a tickle when I've dropped my bag and sat down on the settee.
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And to think that I actually sat on that table -- no, that seat (_he points to the settee_ R., _then he moves up stage between it and the table_) -- that I sat there with him this morning, and never guessed!
Belinda
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A typical layout includes a dinette aft and to port that converts to a small double berth, a settee on the opposite side of the cabin from the dinette and a galley forward of the dinette.
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I tell my gymnast daughter not to do handstands on the settee, while remembering the times I did just that.
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When I got up, she came out from under the settee to say hello and have a tickle.
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He is sitting on a settee in his hotel suite in One Devonshire Gardens, a plump and compact figure in a black pinstripe shirt and black trousers.
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For the first five years the standard layout consisted of opposing settees forward with a drop-leaf table between which formed a dinette or double berth.
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The lounge is like a hospital ward with a hospital bed and a hoist and a settee.
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Further aft the main saloon has an L-shaped dinette to port and settee to starboard followed by a good-sized galley to port and navigation station to starboard.
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There were thick green cushions on the settees and rocking chairs.
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The sun lounge with its comfortable settees is ideal to relax in.
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However, this suggests that your twin-seater was not a plain wooden settle, but almost certainly a settee, which at one time would have formed part of a suite.
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The mahogany easy chair and settee covered with blue moreen may have been standard forms with fixed upholstery and the chintz cover was probably for that settee.
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Laughing and playing peekaboo on the settee with his mother, Sidney pretends to be shy but then turns on a radiant smile for the camera.
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The floor was of the bare earth, covered in patches with loose plank of various descriptions, and littered over with billets of "lightwood," unwashed cooking utensils, two or three cheap stools, a pine settee -- made from the rough log and hewn smooth on the upper side -- a full-grown bloodhound, two younger canines, and nine half-clad juveniles of the flax-head species.
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time
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It was about eleven o'clock, and he'd just come back from a lie-down on his settee, where he could have the TV on to cut down the throbbing.
PROSPECT HILL
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This layout provided a stateroom with a double berth forward followed by a similar head and galley, although moved slightly forward, and main saloon aft with opposing settees.
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Our little sitting room behind the shop was transformed into a card and calendar showroom, with trestles over the settee.
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A Victorian ladies' fainting settee broke my fall from grace and spared me from death, but not from leaving me with two herniated cervical discs.
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He is perched uncomfortably on a settee with a photo album on his knee.
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The main saloon of the Mariner has a settee to starboard just inside the companionway and a convertible dinette to port.
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Located on three levels with seating on stools, settees and at conventional tables, the place has a modern airy atmosphere.
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Under the settee in the lounge officers also found a machete and two wooden coshes.
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We chose to sit on a comfortable settee rather than on hard chairs or impractical looking stools.
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I'm looking for cigarette burns in the carpet, wine stains on the settee and crushed vol-au-vents on the hearth rug.
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He is perched uncomfortably on a settee with a photo album on his knee.
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She too, remained seated on the settee, waiting for him to answer her.
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He followed her obediently to the comfortable old settee by the log fire, and let her pour him a large cupful.
FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
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_In the middle of the room, a little to the right, there is a large and comfortable settee, and on the left of the settee is a table littered with books, magazines, a scent-atomizer, a small silver-framed mirror, a case of manicure instruments, a box of cigarettes and a match-stand, and other odds and ends.
The 'Mind the Paint' Girl A Comedy in Four Acts
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The damage to the lounge area was considerable, taking its toll of two two-seater settees, desks, cabinets, carpets and curtains.
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Get your dirty feet off the settee!
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She tensed on the threshold to the sitting - room, her eyes going instinctively and betrayingly to the Knole settee.
Yesterday's Echoes
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Liszt was sitting with Madame Mayendorff on the settee behind me.
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If we wanted to chat with fellow sitters in the olden days, we placed a couple of matching armchairs at right angles to the settee.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its a settee, occasionally a couch if we're feeling posh.
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Located on three levels with seating on stools, settees and at conventional tables, the place has a modern airy atmosphere.
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David is asleep on the settee and my toasted cheese is about ready so cheerio!
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I will never forget the window cleaner's face when he saw me, slumped glassy-eyed on the settee.
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And so Gregor, terrified, scuttered backwards to the other end of the settee, but was unable to prevent the front of the sheet from stirring slightly.
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
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There are also golden settees big enough to seat eight adults.
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The main saloon is nicely arranged with a transom berth and pilot berth to port and a settee/berth to starboard.
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Two wide settees were separated in the centre by a fixed drop-leaf table.
DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
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Of course, we all had far too much to eat, and ended up flopped on the settee feeling full but satisfied for the rest of the night.
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We had a bottle of wine and watched a movie snuggled up together on the settee.
The Sun
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Aislinn found a spot on the blue settee and the doctor seated himself across from her.
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She was lying on a small settee in the parlor.
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Copacetic has been recorded with the spellings copasetic, copasetty, copesetic, copisettic, and kopasettee.
The WELL: West L.A. Fadeaway
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In a dark corner at the bottom of one of the staircases, there's a sign hanging over a settee which reads "The Sobers Waiting Area".
County cricket - as it happened
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She saw that the settee was in the middle of the room and the window was opened wider than it had been.
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Judith lay on the settee, absorbed in her book.
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He is perched uncomfortably on a settee with a photo album on his knee.
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I came home from school one day and my mother was sitting on the settee crying.
Why Am I Afraid to Divorce?
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It seems that he had dived down into what was peculiarly his kingdom, and beside him on the settee was a brand which he had brought up in the shape of a slim, flame-like young woman with a pale, intense face, youthful, and yet so worn with sin and sorrow that one read the terrible years which had left their leprous mark upon her.
The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
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There was nothing to do but sit very still on the perfect settee without leaning back so as not to dent it.
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Smaller boats are masterpieces of ingenuity, with folding tables and settees which convert into beds.
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An array of leather high-backed chairs and two large settees would certainly make visitors welcome.
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Startled, he jumped up though he was almost dozing, and scuttered back under the settee.
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
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Someone with less means and more impulse control has to deeply consider each additional occasional table, settee, or portrait haggled for at the Marche aux Puces in Paris St-Ouen de Clignancourt.
Kathryn M. Ireland: Hoarding Versus Collecting
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I dragged them in front of my bed and sat down on the settee by the window, waiting for Ellie.
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At odd moments during the day when opportunity occurs, flop down in a chair or on a bed or settee.
23 Steps to Successful Achievement
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WE caught four mice in traps but they were breeding in our settee and armchair and we had to get rid of the furniture.
The Sun
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Choose either a suite with double bed or large suite with double bed plus double bed settee for one or two children.
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At first stools, and later chairs and settees, were provided for the gentlemen.
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The phoenix/model is returned to the petting zoo, for the time seemingly banished from the house with the Louis XIV settee and flat-screen TV.
Kanye West debuts 'Runaway' movie: We watch and recap
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He also sprayed her settee and wall-unit with some type of spray that left a white residue.
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The last one was really scary and we ended up snuggled up close together on the settee.
The Sun
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He rounded the last group, and in front of him was the settee which formed the central portion of the front rank of the serried chairs.
A DEATH IN TIME
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He carried a leather bag which he placed on the floor by the settee.
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I took off my jacket and waistcoat, and my shoes and then we both got onto the settee.
The Sun
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A profusion of lamps and sconces relieved the gloom, bathing in pink glow sofas, settees, armchairs, side tables, étagères, escritoires, bibelots, and curios the pair had collected.
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It was between the settee and the coffee table, over towards the radiogram, away from the bookcase, right under the light fitting.
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Men can take the weight off their feet by reclining on leather settees while watching international football and rugby on TV and being handed small quantities of beer, crisps and nuts by obliging sales staff.
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We had a bottle of wine and watched a movie snuggled up together on the settee.
The Sun
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He pointed toward one of the settees across from the windows and then commanded Adam to sit.
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Like the hall, it was immaculately decorated and furnished, and like the hall it too was somehow too perfect and sterile, apart from the huge Knole settee in front of the fire.
Yesterday's Echoes
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a settee with only one curvy end
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Sitting at a settee, Geneva lounged on it luxuriously while Margaret found the letter.
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Of course, we all had far too much to eat, and ended up flopped on the settee feeling full but satisfied for the rest of the night.
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Twelve-year-old Mohammed Ditta sleeps in a hospital bed with his father Mohammed Saleem next to him on a settee.
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She spent most of her time under the settee, pressed up as tight into the corner as she could, and hardly touched her food.
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We've had to send teams around to remove three-seater settees from communal bins.
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Quickly, she stripped her bed of the pillows, sheet and quilt before folding it back into a settee.
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We sat for a while in a red room by the loos on a settee, waiting for something to happen (films were starting at 7.30).
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She has often turned up on the doorstep of our cramped flat and spent a few nights on the settee before going home.
The Sun
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In the back is a two-seater settee that converts into a double bed.
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But though she recognized an egotist in the settee, she felt none of that usual shutting of doors in her mind which meant clearing ship for action; on the contrary her instinct told her that this man was somehow completely pregnable and quite defenseless.
Flappers and Philosophers
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Then she sat upon a settee and watched the people dance.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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Brydon placed Shevyn on a cushioned settee in the antechamber furthest from the door.
The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Six
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You can bed down on the settee.
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The main cabin features a starboard side settee with small pedestal table that can be used as a dinette or converted to a small berth.
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Of course, a comfy settee is essential, but next on your lounging list should be a good throw.
Times, Sunday Times
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We camped within five miles of the British border at the Chinese fortlet of Settee, a palisaded camp whose gateway also was hung with heads of dacoits.
AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA
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The layout includes a V-berth cabin forward followed by the main saloon with a settee to port and convertible U-shaped dinette to starboard.
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A U-shaped settee wrapped around a mahogany dining-table took up the rest of the space.
CORMORANT
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The last one was really scary and we ended up snuggled up close together on the settee.
The Sun
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Known as the Gentlemen's Cabin, it was an exclusively male preserve, where men could obtain alcoholic refreshments and lounge on settees.
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I rush inside and tear off an elasticated corner from the sheet Sam burned, then grab a small tapestry-covered square cushion from the settee.
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A profusion of lamps and candles relieved the gloom, bathing in a pink glow sofas, settees, armchairs, side tables, escritoires, and curios the pair had collected.
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Anyhow, we quickly mellowed out with a bottle of the lowest teen-priced wine on a deep and scuffed settee and talked about holidays and every kind of rubbish.
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Between the main saloon and the forward head is a stateroom with a Pullman-styled port berth and starboard hanging locker, chest of drawers and settee.
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The question for any couple reduced to long-term settee status is how much bitterness must there be to make the settee preferable to the bed?
What's Going On
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Robert Naylor, 48, tried to deny giving lethal weapons to a friend by claiming he had sold cars, settees and a three-piece suite.
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I would be slobbing out in my arm chair and she'd be curled up on the settee.
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Seated on the edge of her settee, hugging her knees like a nervous child, she waits, listening.
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We were taken upstairs to a small sitting room, with an open fire, settee and two chairs.
Times, Sunday Times
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The most unusual lot is a walnut ebonised and burr art deco-style three-piece suite comprising a two-seater settee and a pair of armchairs.
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The color scheme extends to the attached sunroom with its red rattan settee and yellow armchairs, which have kick pleats in plaid.
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With the two-cabin arrangement the galley is located to the port side aft of the dinette and there is a settee and navigation station to the starboard side of the saloon.
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Set deep into one wall is a blazing fire, all around which have been ranged deep-seated leather armchairs and settees.
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Further aft the main saloon has an L-shaped dinette to port and settee to starboard followed by a good-sized galley to port and navigation station to starboard.
