Then, as the ranks of the smart procession closed up again, hiding the carriage and its occupants from sight, he leaned back with a movement of quiet satisfaction and turned to his companion.
He leaned back in his chair, pulled forward the velvet drapery so as to shut out the view of the house, and fixed his eyes upon the heads of the musicians in the orchestra.
He leaned back in his stall again and folded his arms, with a movement of quiet pride, almost of contempt.
The Gadfly chose a corner with a good view of the hills, and Zita, seating herself on the low wall with her feet on the bench, leaned back against a pillar of the roof.
When the real message stood out on the paper in a brilliant blue line, he leaned back in his chair and burst out laughing.
She did not come up to shake hands, but at once sat down at a short distance from the piano, leaned back, and gazed at Lady Holme with a strange expression of weary, yet almost passionate, expectation.
Then she put down the glass, leaned back on the sofa and shut her eyes.
A little woman, with oily black hair and enormous dark eyes, leaned back on a sofa, playing with a scarlet fan and glancing sideways at a thin, elderly man, who gazed into the distance from which the voice came.
When he had finished, sealed, and stamped his letter he leaned back in his chair, smiling to himself, still under the spell which the thought of her so often now cast over him.
He leaned back in his chair thoughtfully, and recrossed his legs.
Now he leaned back in his chair, and his cold eyes glanced deliberately at each man's face in turn.
Then he leaned back in the chair, and, locking his fingers, rested his elbows upon the arms of it, while his eyes remained upon the blotting-sheet in front of him.
He leaned back in his rocker and swung himself to and fro.
He leaned back in one of the leather chairs in the upstairs parlor, new pair of Gucci's glistening, and sampled his third drink.
As he leaned back, chopsticks in hand, he quickly glanced through the Tokyo papers, followed by The Asian Wall Street Journal and the satellite edition of London's Financial Times.
He leaned back with a sigh and lit a Peace cigarette, nonfilter.
He sighed, leaned back, and reached for the cup of green tea that rested beside him on the polished boards.
He leaned back in his chair with a cup of coffee lifted, looking across it at the stone houses with many balconies.
He leaned back in his chair, shaking with laughter.
He leaned back, thankful that his rush of work was over.
He leaned back, and then suddenly flung all his weight against the door.
The taxi driver appeared only too glad of further employment, and Cecilia, much cheered, though still considerably ashamed of herself, leaned back comfortably in the cab as they whisked through the streets.
Here the old man paused, closed his eyes, leaned back in his chair, and sighed.
Pursuing my idea as I leaned back in my wooden chair, and looked at Biddy sewing away with her head on one side, I began to think her rather an extraordinary girl.
I tried to keep my hand steady while I did so, but his look at me as he leaned back in his chair with the long draggled end of his neckerchief between his teeth--evidently forgotten--made my hand very difficult to master.
There's one thing I must leave you to supply," said John Dene, as he leaned backin his chair smoking a cigar.
At half-past five, after a final glance round the room, he leaned back in his chair.
He leaned back in his chair, and once again he fixed his eyes upon his visitor in a long and silent scrutiny.
He leaned back in his chair with his mouth open and his eyes staring at Walter Hine.
He leaned back in his chair and once more grew silent, watching the thronged street and the twinkling lights.
The person, however, for whom the meal was served leaned back wearily in her chair, barely tasting the different dishes.
He leaned back in his chair and rested his feet on the heavy carving beneath the table.
If you were my sister and another man did it, I should--" He leaned back, at a loss for words.
As he leaned back, silently contemplating his filigree cup of Turkish coffee, he was trying to put some order in his thoughts, to tell himself how the news of her nearness was really affecting him.
He leaned back, spreading himself farther across the seat, as if dilated by the joyful sense of his own discernment.
Tebaldo smiled courteously, leaned back a little in his small, low armchair, and fixed his eyes upon her face in silence.
Though of a fibre different from his father and his brothers, he was strong and healthy, but in those few days he had become thin and white, so that he looked positively delicate now, as he leaned back in his corner.
Orsino stretched out his long legs, leaned back in his low chair, and stared at the old gilded rosettes in the square divisions of the carved ceiling.
After a silence he leaned back in his chair and bade me read the letter to him again, and I did so with a contemptuous tolerance for the writer, who must have been either a very innocent victim or a very stupid swindler.
He leaned back in his chair, his amused eyes searching space for the imagery that made him smile.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leaned back" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
