recline

Example Sentences

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Recline on a daybed with an old book, and forget which decade it is.

From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2015

The Recline and Fall of Western Civilization Tilting your seat back on an airplane is pure evil.

From Slate • Feb. 19, 2013

Recline so that the upper part of the body almost touches the mat, at the same time swinging the legs upward.

From Nature Cure by Lindlahr, Henry

Thou shall with thy Videhan spouse Recline upon the mountain's brows; Be mine the toil, be mine to keep Watch o'er thee waking or asleep.”

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

To Switzerland's recuperative air, To sip condensed milk in a private chalet Or pluck the lissom chamois from his lair, Or on the summit of a neutral Alp Recline your crownless scalp?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 20, 1917 by Seaman, Owen, Sir