supine

Example Sentences

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“But, anyone participating in the restraint would have been contributing to Otieno’s death by maintaining his prone body position, thus preventing him from becoming supine or upright” and able to breathe again, she added.

From Washington Post

The supine Federal Communications Commission deserves plenty of blame for this.

From Los Angeles Times

Yet Europe has left unaddressed the corrosive, longer-term problem of defense industries in most E.U. countries that were left to atrophy after the Soviet Union’s collapse more than three decades ago, and today remain supine.

From Washington Post

Plaintiffs in a shareholder lawsuit filed in Delaware Chancery Court estimate that the package, granted by a “supine board,” could be worth nearly $56 billion, making it the “largest compensation plan in history.”

From Los Angeles Times

Once supine, I experienced the unique and briefly frightening sensation that my ears were traveling up very fast in an elevator while the rest of my body fell gently toward Earth.

From New York Times