Example Sentences

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Patients, ranging from the very young to the elderly, were reclining in Barcaloungers as nurses and physicians intravenously administered potent anti-inflammatory drugs.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 30, 2015

Perhaps I shall shatter some false axioms on which we were reclining.

From Time Magazine Archive

Three passengers in gas masks were reclining on the mattress, waving insanely.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were reclining on the top of a high cliff on the western coast of Skye.

From The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure by Stables, Gordon

We three were reclining round an enormous wood fire in the midst of a great forest, the trees and plants of which were quite new to me, and totally unlike those of my native land.

From The Gorilla Hunters by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)