TERRACE in a Sentence

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For TERRACE, below is one of 60 sentences:
Dressed in a white gown, deeply embroidered, she was sitting in a corner of the terrace behind some flowers, and did not hear him.

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 Meanings and Examples of TERRACE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
terrace
 n.  row of houses built in a similar style; level shelf of land with steep slopes
Classic Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1  For some time confused and intriguing sounds had issued from a long many-windowed room which overhung the terrace.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  She was sitting on a seat at one end of a kind of terrace, overlooking the great city.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 46. INTELLIGENCE
3  As I moved away from them along the terrace, I could not help observing how steadily they both sat gazing on the prospect, and how it thickened and closed around them.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 46. INTELLIGENCE
4  She was sitting on the terrace waiting for the return of her son, who had gone out for his walk and been caught in the rain.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 22
5  Dressed in a white gown, deeply embroidered, she was sitting in a corner of the terrace behind some flowers, and did not hear him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 22
6  He looked at her with a look of submissive tenderness, kissed her hand, got up, and, in silence, paced up and down the terrace.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 22
7  Look how lovely it is out on the terrace, she said, turning first to one and then to the other.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 27
8  Mihail Vassilievitch promptly went out on the terrace.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 27
9  "Run along, run along to Mariette," she said to Seryozha, who had followed her out, and she began walking up and down on the straw matting of the terrace.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 15
10  On the terrace were assembled all the ladies of the party.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 2
11  Their conversation was interrupted by Anna, who had found the men of the party in the billiard room, and returned with them to the terrace.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 20
12  After dinner they sat on the terrace, then they proceeded to play lawn tennis.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 22
13  He walked across the terrace and looked at two stars that had come out in the darkening sky, and suddenly he remembered.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 18
14  Instead of going into the drawing room, where he heard voices, he stopped on the terrace, and leaning his elbows on the parapet, he gazed up at the sky.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 19
15  The terrace was broad enough to take the entire shadow of one of the great trees laid flat.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
Example Sentence:
1  In agriculture, a terrace is a leveled section of a hilly cultivated area, designed as a method of soil conservation.
2  The dining - room opens onto a paved terrace.