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The Calligraphy is a bower of abundance, where visitors can recline in plushly padded, heated and ventilated captain’s chairs, dressed in high-grade Nappa leather: the Relaxation Mode seating package.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 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 most balloon-like, airy element of this room is the plush bean bags, on which guests are encouraged to recline and relax.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2024

Check whether the person behind is leaning on the table, or using a laptop - and recline slowly.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2024

By this time the cabbage and bacon were done, and the old man pushed two rickety couches up to the table and bade his guests recline and eat.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

In the lower half, Marat reclines in a coffin-like bath, topped with a board and a green cloth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025

If someone reclines into your personal space, what can you do?

From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2023

While the chair reclines to a comfortable position, sleep is almost impossible given all the bells, whistles and alarms constantly going off around him from other patients.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2021

In the foreground, Frissell’s daughter plays with her husband, who reclines on his back in the grass.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2021

“You have three hours, and don’t expect me to help. I’m studying for the SATs,” Maribel says, wadding squishy orange plugs into her ears as she takes out a laptop and reclines in her seat.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio

I got comfy and spent much of the trip with the seat reclined.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

Ann Haeckl reclined on a cot — an American Red Cross blanket pulled over her — while her brother John sat nearby.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2025

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

A gaggle of boys reclined on a bean bag in “Caps for Sale,” passing around a copy of the book.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2024

Lamar grunted and reclined in his chair, folding his arms across his beer gut.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

“These are sounds that can make you go mad, apparently,” Morton, 49, tells me, reclining on her bed at the Hotel Chelsea in New York.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Odalisque on the Terrace, painted in 1922, depicts two figures - one reclining in the sun while another holds a violin.

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 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

On Saturdays, a Sacramento clinic repurposes the reclining chairs reserved for patients recovering from abortion procedures for the people coming in for the IVs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026

When Ashoke arrives, Patty is taking Ashima’s blood pressure, and Ashima is reclining against a pile of pillows, the child wrapped like an oblong white parcel in her arms.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri