Sentence examples for as a seat for from inspiring English sources

It was around the castle, built originally as a seat for the border county, that Antwerp developed, in the course of the centuries, in more or less concentric half circles.

Glenn Grassi, in building his prototype one-room microhome — 7 by 12 feet stem-to-stern, including a wood-burning stove, an antique parlor chair that also serves as a seat for the compost toilet beneath it, and a shower under the bed — is hoping it sounds, well, like shelter in the old-fashioned practical sense.

For the exhibition, she had designed a circular mesh sculpture meant to represent Great Migration routes and also function as a seat for viewers but, when she'd arrived that morning, she'd found that the televisions had been screwed down in the wrong positions.

His lap will serve as a seat for children.

To the north of Kirkcaldy is Dunnikier House, built in the late eighteenth century as a seat for the Oswald family, replacing their previous residence at Path House.

Originally purchased so that my husband and I could sit together around the fire on our annual camping trip, we found it has a much greater use as a seat for our dog!

After you develop a little friendship do some kind gestures such as saving a seat for your friend, they will appreciate it and surely return it in the future.

It was one of those stays where I arrived so late I may as well have taken a seat for breakfast.

Spinning high above a stepped base that doubles as a seating for park visitors, the luminous sign invites New Yorkers to literally stand under UNDERSTANDING, while beaming its highly-visible message.

And you can buy a seat for as little as $7. Sunday at 2 p.m., Carnegie Hall, (212) 247-7800; Tickets: $7 to $55 (Anthony Tommasini).

What it lost in trade, Leuven partly recovered as a seat of learning, for in 1425 the Catholic University of Leuven was founded.