Mr. Dalroyd threw down his cards and leaning back in his chair surveyed the indignant Sir Benjamin with his fleeting smile.
Leaning back in his seat, laying his parti-coloured silk handkerchief across his knee, for the first time he wore an appearance of ease, and he also began to smile.
Elmore, leaning back in his seat, remained perfectly still, with his face towards the window, to all outward seeming as oblivious of the other's presence and occasional remarks as if he were not there.
Instead of showing any disposition to take himself off, as the other so plainly suggested, the dark-visaged lawyer, leaning back in his chair, looked up at the young man with something in his glance which was not exactly complimentary.
Leaning back on the cushioned seat, as the train started again, he reviewed the years at Bremerton, his first and only parish.
She refrained from comment on this remark, falling into reflection, leaning back, with one hand outstretched, on the grass.
I asked, leaning back in my chair and surveying him.
Leaning back, motionless, in the corner of the seat was the figure of a man.
It's a pretty big bluff," murmured Jeff, leaning back in his chair and mopping a perspiring brow.
Nicholas snuffed the candles, put his hands in his pockets, and, leaning back in his chair, assumed a look of patient suffering and melancholy resignation.
Blythe, leaning back in the deep chair, did not take his eyes from the murmuring logs.
Quite so, quite so, my dear Antoinette," said Judd, leaning back in his seat again.
Laura, leaning back, emitting an occasional absurdity, studied them both and wondered, her eyes a little dreamy, if matters ever actually turned out in real life as they did in novels.
I cannot I am sorry," said his wife in a low voice, and, leaning back in her chair, she closed her eyes.
The Duke and Mr. Haviland exchanged a few remarks, but Lady Grace, leaning back in her seat, her features completely obscured by a thick veil, declined to talk to any one.
The cashier straightened up from his papers and--leaning back in his chair--exchanged a jest with her as she passed.
Taking a cigar from a box on his desk, Mr. Burk scratched a match on the heel of his shoe and, leaning back in his office chair, continued thinking.
Lady Rodney, leaning back in her chair with her scented handkerchief pressed close to her eyes, sobs aloud and refuses to be comforted.
The duchess, on the contrary, gives way to mirth, and, leaning back in her chair, laughs softly but with evident enjoyment.
I am worn out," Mr. Blank said, leaning back in his chair, and poising his heels on the back of another chair.
Arden laughed, leaning back in his chair and looking at her face.
Maddalena sat quite still, leaning back in a corner of the sofa and looking at a picture on the opposite wall.
Laura was seated in a deep chair, leaning back, her eyes half-closed and her cheeks still wet with tears.
Flora, leaning back in the carriage, looked out through the window with quiet eyes.
Holding her by just the tip of that finger, leaning back a little, he looked into her eyes, and she, looking back, knew that it wedded them once for all.
Of course I've always known she was like that," said Ella, leaning back in her chair with an air of resignation.
Leaning back, nursing his chin in his hand, he watched her with a gloomy sort of brooding.
Yes," said Miss Panney, leaning back in her chair, "that is exactly what I mean.
I don't like that way of looking at it," said Dora, leaning back in her chair, with a sigh.
Sometimes you can do it, and sometimes it's not there," continued Plimpton, leaning back in the desk chair at his Eastside apartment.
Leaning back in the comfortable desk chair at his vast, teakwood-paneled office at Tiffany's on a recent afternoon, he answers all questions thoroughly and unhesitatingly.
Leaning back, with his feet propped up on another chair, he elaborates on foreign affairs: "I think Carter's plane deal in the Middle East escalated tensions rather than reduced them.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leaning back" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
