He leant back in his chair and laughed out his great hearty laugh whose boyish ring, coupled with the laugher's easy careless manners, had snared so many fish into the financial net.
He leant back in his chair, humming a little tune and watched Mr. Foilet with smiling eyes.
Then she set her lips once more, leant back, and looked out of the carriage window at the street all sloppy with mud, and the poor people seeming so miserable in the rain which had been falling steadily for the last hour.
He leant back with a smile of despairing amusement.
He gave her all the Sunday papers and for a time she read them, while he leant back, steadily and curiously regarding the white smooth brow which shewed itself over the top of the sheet.
He leant back in his chair and looked at her before he replied.
He leant back in his chair and stared sternly at his book-shelves.
Alice turned down her leaf, shut up her magazine, leant back, and surveyed him calmly.
When the maid had withdrawn, Dick drank of his wine, refilled his glass, held it daintily by the stem between finger and thumb, leant back in his chair, and proceeded deliberately to break the spell.
She glanced at him as he leant back in his chair, his long legs stretched out and crossed before him.
The dancers, pale and dusty, leant back in rows against the wall, and with their handkerchiefs went through the motions of fanning or polishing, according to sex.
I leant back on the wainscotting with my eyes tightly fixed on him, and my thoughts sneaking back, with something of regret, to the storm I had come through.
He leant back, spreading out the fingers of each hand on the table's edge.
Then he leant back in his chair and his fine eyes were lit with an agony of doubt and disquiet.
Then he leant back again, and produced and lit a cigar.
The man beamed as he leant back in his chair more than satisfied with himself.
He leant back in his chair and imitated his companion's luxurious attitude.
And they all put their elbows on the table or leant back in their chairs, nodding their heads at the best parts and sipping their wine when they came to the choruses.
When he leant back to call that young viper, Zidore, he held on to a corner of the masonry, on account of the street beneath him.
Here the Baron, overpowered by his emotions, leant back in his chair, and ceased to speak.
Frankfort;" and the diplomatist, overcome, leant back in his chair.
He leant back in the chair and stared at her with a mixture of resentment and amusement.
Judge of my astonishment when he leant back, cut me sharply across the calves with his long whip, and before I could yell had started his horses up the opposite hill at a gallop.
I leant back with my head in the shadow to digest its crude absurdity.
A plank behind me had started, and after a while the edge of it began to gall my shoulders as I leant back.
Again he seemed to study her; then he leant backin his chair with a decisive movement.
He leant back in his chair, balancing the pack of cards in his hands.
With a reckless excitement he had never before had opportunity to feel, he leant back in his chair, and taking up the glass Burke had set beside him, poured out some port and drank it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leant back" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
