chairbound
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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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
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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
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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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