Sentence examples for chalet by from inspiring English sources

But they'd been lent a ski chalet by friends in Boston, and when the caretaker found a good baby-sitter, Janice Pike, they began to relax.

The flying saucer-style structure is a Futuro house, designed in the 1960s as a portable modular ski chalet by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen.

I began my search for a chalet by calling Switzerland Tourism's automated fax information line in New York, which within seconds sent me a one-page list of chalet rental agencies.

"Memory Chalet" by Tony Judt: The author, who died in August, was diagnosed with a rare form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, in 2008, which soon left him in a state of complete paralysis.

The wooden chalet, known by number 2359, was also the first council-owned hut in the UK.

But it was not immediately clear whether audience members will be allowed to eat the gingerbread chalet designed by the artist Will Cotton for five holiday performances of "Prokoviev's "Peter and the Wolf," narrated by the designer Isaac Mizrahi.

When Faris was showing me the grounds — the bocce court midway up the hill, the aerie up top where she'd like to put a small chalet reachable by gondola — she paused to examine some scat coiled beside the pool.

A light shower of snow is falling on Davos at the start of the third day of the annual World Economic Forum, so spare a thought for the piper outside the "chalet" occupied by Aberdeen Asset Management, just along from the Belvedere.

Just as he plundered the country he ruled for four years, here Mr Yanukovych ransacked the history of European design, housing himself in an oversized Finnish-style chalet surrounded by faux-Roman statues and stuffed with fake French antiques.A rather different idea of Europe was expressed by the men and women who occupied Kiev's Independence Square, known as the Maidan.

After skiing, there were more tough choices: more time in the gym, Jacuzzi or the sauna; a session with one of the skilled staff masseuses; a bit of lying about the chalet, reading by the fire or a visit to the bar for storytelling and a beer.

She said it was a "nice little chalet" staffed by compassionate people but did not compare with home.