: a rooflike cover extending over or in front of a place (as over the deck or in front of a door or window) as a shelter
Examples of awning in a Sentence
stayed under the awning outside the shop during the rainstorm
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Its entrance is on the back side of a small hut-like office building with cloth awnings.
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Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2024
In the 1980s, Margaret moved to Yeoville, a vibrant neighborhood near downtown Johannesburg, packed with alternative bookstores, smoky dance bars, and street cafés with striped awnings and elegant foreign names such as Café Pigalle.
—Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2024
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Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2024
In the 1980s, Margaret moved to Yeoville, a vibrant neighborhood near downtown Johannesburg, packed with alternative bookstores, smoky dance bars, and street cafés with striped awnings and elegant foreign names such as Café Pigalle.
—Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2024
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“Awning.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/awning. Accessed 6 Jun. 2024.
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awning
noun
aw·ning
ˈȯn-iŋ 
ˈän-
: a cover (as of canvas) that shades or shelters like a roof
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