Specialty markets

Usage examples of niches.

His groping hands and feet found niches and knobs, precarious holds at best, and sometimes he virtually hung by his finger nails.

The walls everywhere sport hundreds upon hundreds of arched niches, each holding a white marble sculpture.

Always alert for possible niches, Maia wondered if this calmness at the edge of a cliff might hint a useful talent.

There were Yuquinn maids and Venn cooks and Buju handywomen, all of whom seemed nimble and content in their inherited niches, needing no command or incentive to anticipate every Persim whim.

It was one hundred and fifteen meters long and was comprised primarily of buckycarbon girders, with wrinkled radiation-shield fabric wrapped around module niches, semiautonomous sniffer probes, scores of antennae, sensors, and cables.

The holograms in niches of scores and scores more gods and goddesses reinforced his hypothesis.

There were something like forty thousand niches there, identified only by number.

Which brings up my original comment about there being a reason for everything, including the surge in summer births, even though niches seem so few.

Oh, I guess there are still niches, Maia thought, watching the stern women move along, causing even members of the city watch to step aside.

Seabirds cried possessive calls of territoriality, warning others of their kind to keep away from private nesting niches, chiseled in the steep bluffs overlooking Grange Head harbor.

Maia recalled the var-trash romance novel she had read back in prison, about a world spun topsy-turvy, in which stodgy clans collapsed along with the stable conditions that had made them thrive, opening fresh niches to be filled by upstart variants.

Must be military specialist hives, subsidized in their niches by council security funds.

They wait in their niches at night when they have not been given anything to do.

Murandys and a ducal entourage from the east end of the hall, servants scattering like mice along their route, finding niches that took them aside from the course of confrontation.

Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills.