recline
verb (used without object)
to lean or lie back; rest in a recumbent position.
are reclining
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present progressiveof recline.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The rest look like they are reclining after a big meal.
From Time ● Feb. 23, 2012
From the basin which receives the water, a brook flows toward the background, where it spreads out into a lake, in which naiads are seen bathing and on the banks of which sirens are reclining.
From A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel
Far to the right of the spot where we are reclining, the giant mountain, Ben-na-chie, rears its proud head into the air.
From In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life by Gordon Stables
Hurricane Bob and I are reclining among our rugs on the broad coupé.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
The peasants are abroad in their fields as usual, but a goodly proportion are reclining beneath the trees.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Thomas Stevens
