repose
Example Sentences
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A moral universe in which I can meaningfully tell my beads for the repose of the souls of departed friends and family.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
While her maybe-beau stays forced in repose, Iris cycles through all the different types of women she could be.
From Salon • Jul. 25, 2025
Fresh and green are the pastures where he gives me repose.
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2025
Unlike Manet, Degas, Renoir and Cassatt, Gustave Caillebotte mostly painted men rather than women — men at work, men in repose, even naked men getting out of the bath.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2025
They stood, solidly, uncomfortably, on the right of the chamber, shifting from foot to foot, scratching their cheeks and noses, as if they were shamed by the silent repose of their dead brothers.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
Vocabulary lists containing repose
The Great Gatsby
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Animal Farm
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