pergola

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Recent Examples of pergola For a more shaded area, consider shopping this pergola with a canopy that has built-in shelves for serving drinks or prepping food. Shea Simmons, Southern Living, 11 June 2025 The buildings were designed in a U-shape to create landscaped courtyards, gathering spaces and a pergola. Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 9 June 2025 Here, homeowners can whip up cocktails to serve guests from the indoor bar tucked into the bulkhead, exercise their green thumbs tending to the mature plantings, or just chill under the vine-laced pergola. Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 23 May 2025 No one can account for what happened to the original pergola. Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for pergola
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Noun
  • North Coast Church paid $9,500 for lumber, arbors, benches, pergolas, garden fencing, monument signs and concrete, rocks, plants and paint supplies.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2025
  • Photo : Elite Auctions A view of the vineyard from the arbor.
    Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The car famously features an image of the Confederate flag on its roof.
    Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 1 July 2025
  • Metal and clay roofs are two of the most energy-efficient roof types due to their reflective properties.
    Maddie Topliff, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • In addition to wall coverings, tapestries were found hanging over windows and doors, and used as bed curtains and canopies in bed chambers.
    Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 June 2025
  • Footage from the site showed portable restrooms and air conditioning systems underneath tent-like canopies.
    James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • What to expect: The white tablecloths remain, the chapel ceiling still stuns, but the food’s had a sharp little refresh under head chef Arturo Granato.
    Lela London, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • This past Sunday, a host of friends, congregants and supporters at Shir Tikvah in Homewood honored one of these seekers, Rabbi Ellen Dreyfus, who in 1979 broke the stained glass ceiling by becoming the first woman rabbi ordained in Illinois.
    Jerry Shnay, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Remember, a tent offers no protection from lighting.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2025
  • Just remember, tents do not offer protection from lightning.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • All around the bower the bird scatters small objects – shells, pieces of plastic, flower petals – which all possess the same property: the color blue.
    Shawn Simpson, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Like the bowers, the nests of the puffer fish are beautiful and involve mate attraction.
    Shawn Simpson, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • If your summer dreams include sipping espresso under striped awnings in Montmartre or serving flaky pastries on delicate dishes beneath a blooming window box, Anthropologie’s new Café Violette Collection was created for you.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2025
  • The exterior was white stucco and the windows adorned with the green-and-white-striped awnings of an Italian villa.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 11 June 2025

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“Pergola.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pergola. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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