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supine
adjective as in lying down
Example Sentences
Finally, 17 days after my symptoms first appeared, I dusted off a navy blue yoga mat, a pair of resistance bands, and lay down, supine and cautious.
As an assistant director shouted out instructions in Hindi and English, Kashyap had a word with his lead actress, who was lying supine on a bed in a blue hospital gown.
Metz tells the story of how this unlikely entrepreneur, traveling supine in buses and trains, engineered a bidding war for a company that had no product or employees and was finally sold to Google for $44 million.
In effect, an overreaching administration and a supine FISC are ginning up a secret constitution.
On closer examination, this is not the hand of a supine victim.
A fur seal stands upright on his fore flippers, a hair seal lies supine.
The supine position, as in the adult, is imposed only at night.
She sat back in her chair, gazing up the darkening river, her hands lying supine on her knees.
A burst of criticism followed from England; press and politicians joined in denouncing the blind and supine colonials.
Unfortunately, the supine ignorance of the fair sex in Sarrio made these ingenious modes of communication null and void.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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