How to Use recline in a Sentence

recline

verb
Definition of reclinenext
Synonyms for reclinenext
  • The theater has reclining seats.
  • He reclined his seat so that he could nap more comfortably.
  • She was reclining on the sofa, watching TV.
  • Her son slept in a reclining chair, and one daughter slept on the couch.
    — Ted Conover, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • The seats don’t recline, and the unusual setup doesn’t help on legroom.
    — Alex Davies, WIRED, 10 July 2019
  • Saoirse Ronan reclines in a baroque robe surrounded by literature with her flame red hair splayed out around her.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 5 July 2019
  • Instead of a seat designed to waterboard your sciatic nerve, a reclining sleep pod and your own armrests.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 30 June 2019
  • Harvey, after going up the three steps to the porch, often could be found reclining on the couch that sat against the outside wall of the living room.
    — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 14 July 2019
  • The painting, which depicts a wealthy woman reclining as a black servant looks on, went on display at the Mendes Gallery this week.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 21 June 2019
  • The air was filled with music and the smell of cooking meat as families and friends clustered around dozens of portable grills, reclined on picnic blankets or lounged in chairs.
    — Marisa Kendall, The Mercury News, 21 July 2019
  • Flights have been forced to make unscheduled landings because passengers were bickering over reclining seats.
    — Time, 26 July 2019
  • Sporting shades, Marc Newson reclines on a sunny terrace of his Greek island retreat.
    — Lee Carter, Robb Report, 13 July 2024
  • Search #poolfloat on Instagram and there’s a near endless scroll of babies, dogs and fully grown adults reclining on inflatables of all shapes and sizes.
    — Sanam Yar, New York Times, 30 July 2019
  • The theater has valet parking and offers food, blankets and pillows delivered to moviegoers’ reclining chairs.
    — David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com, 31 July 2019
  • The company’s hope for the theater includes a food service, a small number of screens with reclining seats and the ability to purchase tickets and reserve space from a phone app.
    — Jennifer Bolton, Houston Chronicle, 15 July 2019
  • The odalisque, an image of a reclining nude, conjoins two distinct categories of the commodity: the slave and the prostitute.
    — Longreads, 20 July 2019
  • Rival movie theaters offering reclining seats at lower prices have particularly hurt iPic.
    — Bloomberg News, al, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The white-on-black label depicting a nude woman reclining on a sofa with a riot of pillows and checkered throws, lazily stroking a cat, appealed to Emma's artistic side.
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 19 July 2019
  • The seats didn't recline, and the air was thick with restroom odors.
    — Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 July 2023
  • There was room – so much room! – to recline, to spread your legs, to rest.
    — Karen Heller, The Know, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Both the canopy and the basket are wide, and the seat reclines nearly flat for naps.
    — Jessica Hartshorn and Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Each of the reclining leather seats is 2-½ feet wide, with four feet of leg room.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • This is a set of clamps that prevent the seat in front of you from reclining.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The seat reclines three-quarters of the way, which should be enough to get your napper to fall asleep.
    — Sara Gaynes Levy, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The right to recline your seat has its limits, at least in China.
    — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2022
  • Click on that to recline the chair and the chick and the duck appear, quacking and squeaking and walking around on the bottom of the screen.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • As the storm descended, the diners began to recline, and the wine flowed.
    — Meara Sharma, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Treat yourself and lie back on a reclining lawn chair and take it all in!
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 29 Sep. 2019
  • To recline the chair, pull on the side buckles and lean back and the straps will loosen, making the chair recline to your liking.
    — Amanda Ogle, Southern Living, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Even today, many of its iconic palm trees still recline backwards as if frozen in a permanent state of shock.
    — Dominic Kocur, theweek, 5 July 2024

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