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Example sentences for "reclined"

Lexicographically close words:
reclaims; reclamation; reclamations; reclassification; recline; reclines; reclining; reclosed; reclosing; reclothed
  1. Its brightness made him blink, its warmth was grateful, and he reclined before it, with elbow on the floor and head resting on his hand.

  2. On arriving at a spot where a large hole had been broken through the sky they reclined on mats, and the tall man loosing one of his silver ornaments flung it into a group of children playing before a lodge.

  3. Mrs. Gordon and Mrs. McIntosh reclined on Mary's sofa, the others gathered round to complete the circle, and the young people gave snatches of their eventful history.

  4. Mary reclined on the sofa, but could not sleep.

  5. Cecilia reclined on deck, wrapped in shawl and waterproof.

  6. Nevil had time to spring the flood of crimson in her cheeks, bright as the awning she reclined under.

  7. She now placed herself on the edge of the bed in a half reclined position.

  8. For a lovely girl reclined on the bed with nothing but her chemise on, but still having her breasts and the lower portion of her body bare.

  9. I believe the same thing happened to him, for he threw himself upon me, and two or three convulsive shudders ran through his system; he then became calmer and reclined negligently in my arms.

  10. He then reclined me on my back on the sofa and threw himself on the top of me.

  11. And so saying he reclined her on the divan, and taking her thighs in his arms, he drove his lance to the hilt into her body.

  12. While she was thus speaking, she half reclined herself on the sofa and opened her thighs to the widest extent.

  13. He then led me to a sofa and reclined me upon it.

  14. After this was over we all reclined on the divan together.

  15. Her couch was placed exactly opposite my hiding place, so that I had a most perfect view of her as she reclined there.

  16. The posture, which from four years' experience, I would recommend at this exercise, is sitting, with the heads reclined upon the desks.

  17. Fanny was sitting on the sofa with her head reclined on the pillow.

  18. Reclined at length on a couch, in her new apartment, Fanny's spirits appeared so much improved as to encourage hopes which had become extinct.

  19. One morning, when I called on him at his house in Grosvenor Square, I found him reclined on his chaise longue, in a very pensive attitude.

  20. I reclined my head on his shoulder, in order to talk to him with less formality.

  21. She was sitting near the window, with her head reclined on her hand, and appeared more than usually pensive.

  22. O'erwhelmed with doubt, the dark-eyed maid Reclined beneath a myrtle shade, And sent a faithful page to guide Her banished lover to her side.

  23. Passing these, he went on to his relative, who was sitting reclined against a large pillow in a recess of the window, and who half rose as he returned his salutation, but not courteously.

  24. Others reclined on the floor, with their blankets, or karosses, draped round them, and ornamented with strings of beads, whose gaudy colours contrasted finely with their dark skins.

  25. On its green banks reclined a crowd of Fingo warriors, in their war attire of plumes, assegais, shields of bullock-hide, and their karosses draped gracefully round them.

  26. At his feet sits a woman--for the Greek lady never reclined at table.

  27. The prince reclined on a couch from which a draping of cloth-of-silver rolled torrent over the floor.

  28. Serene on the swaying air, which, radiant with soft beams of vermil and violet light, rocked me into variant visions of heaven, I reclined and regarded him unmoved.

  29. An invalid is usually of interest to women, so it is no wonder that the three young ladies were at once attracted by the bright-faced boy, who reclined upon his couch before the vine-covered windows.

  30. Upon a dilapidated wicker settee, which had one end propped with a box, partially reclined the form of a man whose right arm was in splints and supported by a sling, while his head was covered with plasters and bandages.

  31. They proved to be soporific, for he gradually reclined backwards on the green turf and fell asleep, surrounded by and partially covered with grapes, like a drunken and disorderly Bacchus.

  32. Karlsefin sat beside the helm, guiding the ship and telling sagas to the group of friends who stood, sat, or reclined on the deck and against the bulwarks of the high poop.

  33. The company would fain have reclined upon the sward on the slope of the hill, opposite to the outstretched landscape, had they not feared the dampness of the earth.

  34. So sate Hilda, and so reclined her grandchild Edith.

  35. At her feet reclined a girl somewhat about the age of sixteen, her long hair parted across her forehead and falling far down her shoulders.

  36. Illustration: The girls could sit under the tree while Luke reclined on a swinging cot.

  37. Besides, the farmer owned a beautifully shaded lawn overlooking the lake and the girls could sit there under the trees while the invalid, as they insisted upon calling Luke, reclined on a swinging cot.

  38. The girls could sit under the trees while Luke reclined on a swinging cot 158 "They want that silver thing back.

  39. All about the room were grouped other mother-of-pearl couches, not raised like that of the queen, and upon each of these reclined a pretty mermaid.

  40. Here reclined Queen Aquareine, a being so lovely that Trot gazed upon her spellbound and Cap'n Bill took off his sailor cap and held it in his hands.

  41. Lewis, as he reclined on a narrow ledge of rock recovering breath after a fatiguing climb, while his comrade peered intently through a telescope into the recesses of a dark mountain gorge that lay a little below them.

  42. In one of the many mansions of the "west end" of London, a lady reclined one morning on a sofa wishing that it were afternoon.

  43. Cleo reclined on the same couch, robed in a terra-cotta gown which Morgan recognised at once.

  44. In the centre was a gilded couch, upholstered in silk, and, as Ingram mentioned his name, Morgan found himself bowing to the wonderful woman who reclined on it.

  45. Wetzel reclined there with his head against the stone, and his rifle resting across his knees.

  46. Under the trees on every side sat warriors astride their steeds; some lounged on the green turf; many reclined in the branches of low-spreading maples.

  47. From the Grand Chamberlain, whose stony gaze was riveted upon him, Tristan turned to the woman who reclined by his side on the divan.

  48. On an adjoining couch reclined the huge jelly of a man who looked like Pan, enormously swollen and bloated.

  49. He swallowed knives to the ruin of his digestion for years to come; he dislocated every limb of his body; he reclined in the air, apparently upon nothing.

  50. With a very rare impulse, Mr. Oakhurst took off his hat, and half reclined on the bench, with his face to the sky.

  51. It was nearly ten o'clock at night, and Mrs. Decker reclined languidly upon the sofa with a novel in her hand, while her husband discussed the politics of the country in the bar-room of the hotel.

  52. As he reclined with the Bithyman, before the supper which was standing ready, he said: "A strange evening!


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reclined" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.