recline
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But she was surprised that she had to load her bags under the bus herself, and that her seat couldn’t recline for the overnight ride.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
You ignore it picking up while you make your nest: secure the corners of your blanket, adjust your umbrella and finally, comfortably recline.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2025
The seats themselves can recline into two-metre long, fully flat beds.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2024
Several of the ladies are now wearing pink sweats and snuggle on pink blankets on the floor or recline on hot pink blow up chairs to watch — what else? — the “Barbie” movie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2023
The party was about to recline and go to sleep when there was a tramp of feet on the stairs.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
Covered in fractal patterns like “the symmetrical innards of a halved cabbage,” the giant humanoid insect reclines, “a god-sized man sleeping atop the quilt of the land.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
If someone reclines into your personal space, what can you do?
From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2023
The nymph reclines on her side, resting on an urn, which in the past was used to send water into the banks of the lake below.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
Your seat reclines but does not lie flat.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2022
Kylie reclines my chair until I’m nearly horizontal.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
I got comfy and spent much of the trip with the seat reclined.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
For a decade, my therapy appointments required a 30-minute train ride to a mid-rise medical office building in suburban Philadelphia, where I reclined on a black leather couch, grabbing the occasional Kleenex.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2024
Actually, she reclined for the interview, slipping off her heels and stretching out on a leather chaise under a waffle-weave blanket that she eventually cast aside with a grimace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2024
These rigs include everything you'd expect in your average F1 car, including a reclined seat, pedals and steering wheel in front of a big curved screen.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2024
Their mate, a male with a magnificent mane, reclined atop Lord lywin's greathelm, one paw raking the air as he roared.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
Earlier research has linked greater amounts of sedentary behavior, including sitting, reclining, or lying down while awake, with poorer health outcomes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
At a pagoda in the suburb of Amarapura, a statue of a reclining Buddha emerges from a carefully arranged pile of brick rubble, its face respectfully cleaned.
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
Clinton swimming with Ghislaine Maxwell in one undated photo; reclining in the hot tub next to the person whose face has been blacked out.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026
The third-row seats are small but comfortable with reclining seatbacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
Their feet could barely touch the ground, but that didn’t stop them from reclining the seat with great strength into our knees.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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