sofa
IPA: sˈoʊfʌ
noun
- (Middle East architecture, archaic) A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting.
- (furniture, chiefly UK, India) An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people.
- (international relations, military, law, politics) Abbreviation of status of forces agreement.
verb
- To furnish with one or more sofas.
- To seat or lay down on a sofa.
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Examples of "sofa" in Sentences
- The sofa is velvety.
- He was lolling on a sofa.
- The baby straddles on the sofa.
- His job is to burnish the sofa.
- They sigh and faint on the sofa.
- The sofa is snug and comfortable.
- The logo was etched upon the sofa.
- The Chinese bug was in the sofa cushion.
- A woman in the crowd suddenly bounces on the sofa.
- Sleek chairs and sofas have replaced the old furniture.
- A sofa is a word adapted into English from Arabic, by way of Aramaic.
- Your discovery of a glass eye in the fold of your sofa is a lucky omen.
- In any commercial for beer or snack food, one of the guys on the sofa is always black.
- After reviewing several episodes, I see that the real gift she gives to her boys, from my seat on the sofa, is to leave them entirely to their own devices.
- What your seeing in pics is ONLY the "Love seat", the * sofa* is larger/longer of course (unable to take pic of sofa since it lies underneath the loveseat, no room for pic)
- Wilson points out that in Cowper's The Taska paradigm for the sentimental construction of nature in the later eighteenth centurythe sofa is the site of "female industry" (165) that the narrator turns from "to the serious business of composing poetry outdoors among real flowers" (168).
- Mexico; the sofa is placed against the wall and the chairs form a circle around it; the visitor is given the sofa, which is the "seat of honor," and the family sit in the circle, the eldest nearest the sofa; the visitor expects to be asked to play the piano, which she does in fine style, and then the hostess must play after her or commit
- There is certainly a degree of personal animus in some of the attacks and with the increasing polarization of the political debate in the country, this question of Tony Blair's personal style -- I mean, we saw, for example, the Butler Report in it's very veiled and rather elegant way, criticizing his what they call sofa cabinet, the fact that everything is done very informally, off the record with just a few select advisors.
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