repose
Example Sentences
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Water had always filled me with awe in its majestic settings, its cool repose, but everything about this lake was a terror to me because I couldn’t admire it from any place of safety.
From Literature
When our granddaughter Raleigh, then 2, met Doc, he was in his bed in the kitchen, one of his five places of repose around our house.
And although they recall many wordless moments of repose between takes, the shoot enlivened the actors far more than it exhausted them.
From Los Angeles Times
A moral universe in which I can meaningfully tell my beads for the repose of the souls of departed friends and family.
On Friday, hundreds gathered in the village to pay respect to Ms Whyte and her children as they lay in repose together.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
