: a long upholstered seat usually with arms and a back and often convertible into a bed
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I curled up on the sofa with a book.
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There is so much on the television calendar between Memorial Day and Labor Day that there’s reason to believe the seat indent of our sofa cushions might never spring back into shape.
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The wear rating on my new sofa is 100,000 double rubs.
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Having one shade of green on the sofa and another on the walls creates a kind of tension that is really interesting.
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Megan Schaltegger, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024
There is so much on the television calendar between Memorial Day and Labor Day that there’s reason to believe the seat indent of our sofa cushions might never spring back into shape.
—Lucy Ford, TIME, 23 May 2024
The wear rating on my new sofa is 100,000 double rubs.
—Marni Jameson, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
Having one shade of green on the sofa and another on the walls creates a kind of tension that is really interesting.
—Eleni N. Gage, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 May 2024
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“Sofa.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sofa. Accessed 16 Jun. 2024.
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sofa
noun
so·fa
ˈsō-fə 
: a long upholstered seat usually with arms and a back and often convertible into a bed
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