In an alcove

Usage examples of recessed.

Behind the drapes, Tyson knew, was a large recessed area, the presbytery, where the high altar sat beneath a large cross.

The noise seemed to be coming from a large recessed alcove that lay ahead on the right.

The sarcophagus was recessed in a niche, obscured from this oblique angle.

It was a nondescript building made from a high-density metal stone amalgamation with slim recessed vertical windows, the kind of office block that would be rented by a small company going nowhere.

Court was recessed until Thursday, November 19, at which time each of the defense attorneys argued the standard motions to dismiss.

After the defense had introduced their exhibits, Judge Older recessed court for ten days to give the attorneys time to prepare their jury instructions and arguments.

Like almost every building in Bekla it was of stone, its long rows of recessed bays cool and dusky, the whole place echoing whenever a door slammed or a crate was grounded by the winch.

At its far end they came to another closed door, ornately carved, with recessed panels and a great latch of bronze, the stop cast to resemble a hound and the fall-bar a bone clenched in its jaws.

A touch-tone phone, with a cord running into the wall, on a horizontal surface in a recessed alcove near the front door.

Around the circumference of the balcony were thirty or so gray couches, slightly recessed into archways studded with gray medical equipment.

A set of four broad stone steps led up to the recessed space in front of the door, flanked by two life-size carvings.