chairbound
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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No amount of professional proficiency alone enables a musical to take wing and make a chairbound audience irresistibly airborne.
From Time Magazine Archive
Growing legions of chairbound executives labor through pushups on the bedroom floor at dawn, or spend their lunch hours performing similar strenuous rituals in a gym.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had a vision of Messala, chairbound like Simonides, and, like him, going abroad on the shoulders of servants.
From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Wallace, Lewis
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