How to use "bench" in a sentence

He shook his fist at the church and then, cold and hungry, he lay down on a stone bench by the doorway.

'On this bench, in this cold wind?'

A woman saw me lying on a stone bench across the square and suggested that I come here

They always sat next to each other on the same bench

When he returned, one summer morning six months later, he saw the same couple sitting on the same bench, but something amazing had happened

For the next few days he passed the bench in the Gardens without looking at her

He walked around slowly, stopping to look at the ducks on the lake, then casually approached the bench where Mile Lanoire and her father were sitting

Without intending to, he stopped, turned round and walked past the bench again

He did not go back a third time, but sat down on a bench at the opposite end of the Gardens

Taking a deep breath, he rose and was going to pass the bench for a third time when he stopped

What would he be thinking when he saw a strange young man walking backwards and forwards in front of his bench? Without another thought, Marius left the Gardens and went home.

He returned the next morning and sat on a bench all day, pretending to read a book, not daring to go near the bench where the girl and her father were sitting

Leblanc and his daughter had risen from their bench and were slowly walking in his direction

He avoided walking directly in front of the bench, partly from shyness, partly because he did not want to attract her father's attention

Leblanc took his daughter to a different bench, to see if Marius would follow them

One evening, he found a handkerchief lying on the bench which M

Then one morning, a few days later, Cosette noticed a large stone lying on the garden bench

She sat on the bench where she had found the notebook and, moments later, had the strange feeling that she was being watched

Afterwards, they sat together on the garden bench in a state of shock, neither of them speaking

'What's the matter?' he asked, sitting next to her on the bench.

Outside they can see the renovation work: there is scaffolding on the face of the old building, a new wall on the side of it, and three or four workmen are sitting on a bench eating lunch.

"Gran! Are you OK?" Sala put an arm around her, and made her sit down on the little bench that looked over the city.

Instead, she spent hours sitting on her bench in the Real Space, looking out over the city with a distant expression