folding chair
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of folding chair
First recorded in 1670–80
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Linda Jones has set up a folding chair near a polling station in Atlanta, Georgia, to watch out for anything that might keep people from casting their ballots in the US midterms.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
I sat in the plastic folding chair in the office, across from Fleurijean’s desk, where a few weeks prior, a 20-year-old named Pierre Damas Bel had sat, asking for help.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
She had set up folding chair next to the turnstiles with her mother and grandmother -- their beds for the next hours.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
So as soon as she pulled away to meet a cosmetology client, he planted a white plastic folding chair in the middle of the empty spot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
Wickersham didn’t take the folding chair I set up next to mine.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
