How to Use recliner in a Sentence

recliner

noun
Definition of reclinernext
  • Smit looked across the room at Dis, asleep in the recliner.
    — jsonline.com, 31 Aug. 2021
  • By the third day, John was able to sit in the recliner for four hours.
    — Lauren Caruba, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Slept in a recliner for three full nights and part of the last two.
    — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 15 Dec. 2019
  • Inky had launched out of the chair as soon as workers pulled the recliner from the truck.
    — Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Here, a line of rocks, each the size of a big-man recliner, looks like the back of a stegosaurus dinosaur.
    — Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The arms of Jessie’s leather recliner were covered in drips of paint.
    — Michelle Matthews | Mmatthews@al.com, al, 24 May 2020
  • And fans have to trade their revelry at the course for a view from the TV in a recliner.
    — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2020
  • The tickets sit next to him on the side table of his recliner.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2021
  • At night, Corbett sits in a recliner in the chapel and pulls up a blanket.
    — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Fuentes sat in a recliner with a blanket over the lower half of her body.
    — Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2022
  • When there was a rare lull, George said, his mom would come into the house, lay in the recliner and put her feet up.
    — Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 July 2022
  • Then the basement flooded again, and out went the new recliner.
    — New York Times, 17 Oct. 2021
  • That’s easy to forget when you’re laid out on the recliner, getting a full blast.
    — Bill Finch, al, 3 July 2023
  • Two new-with-tags La-Z-Boy leather recliners for $100 apiece.
    — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2019
  • Just note that it’s a straight recliner that doesn’t rock or swivel.
    — Popsci Commerce Team, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Plus, a crib, a dresser, a recliner chair, and a pom pom blanket.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 3 May 2021
  • Which is a way of saying that his body odor is starting to be able to get up off the recliner and go for a walk in his stead.
    — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • This was a genius move by La-Z-Boy, and a great way to translate the famous recliner to pets.
    — Maddie Hiatt, House Beautiful, 9 July 2019
  • The recliner engulfs the cramped room, its edges almost touching the walls.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 18 June 2022
  • The homeowner wanted the space to include a recliner, a sofa, and a TV that could be viewed from the kitchen.
    — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 22 Feb. 2024
  • For years, a picture of a horse had hung behind Biden, Sr.,’s recliner.
    — Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Then the therapists convinced him to sit in a recliner for an hour.
    — Lauren Caruba, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The deputy peered through the window and saw a deceased person sitting in a recliner, Stark said.
    — Summer Linstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • There was talk of walking the track to survey the route, but then Gatting found a leather recliner and sank into it.
    — Vera Carothers, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • In Abilene, a husband was found frozen to death in his recliner, his wife clinging to his side.
    — Brian Chasnoff, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Sitting in a plush brown recliner, his beef stroganoff dinner on a tray before him, Jester tried V.R. for the first time.
    — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2022
  • His daily routine was to come downstairs from bed and sprawl in a recliner, sleeping for two-thirds of the day.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Axel three-piece sectional recliner, there’s no need to fight over who gets to stretch out on the chaise.
    — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Roundhouse was a beast all its own, replete with only two recurring characters: Mom and Dad, the latter of whom zipped around in a motorized recliner.
    — Eliot Glazer, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Ashley Furniture has a double recliner on sale that’s ideal for a small family.
    — Fox News, 21 May 2024

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