How to Use in repose in a Sentence

in repose

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• In the past, justices have lain in repose in the Supreme Court’s Great Hall for only one day.
  — Annie Karni, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2020
• Near one end of the garages, a quartet of fire-engine-red quadrupeds crouched in repose.
  — David Montgomery, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021
• Ginsburg will lie in repose in front of the court again Thursday.
  — Paul Cobler, Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2020
• There’s the pug in repose on a bay-window banquette in a $12.95 million townhouse on the Upper East Side.
  — Clio Chang, Curbed, 14 June 2024
• Ginsburg will lie in repose at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, a court spokeswoman said Monday.
  — Susan Ferrechio, Washington Examiner, 21 Sep. 2020
• The last justice who lay in repose at the court was Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second female justice.
  — CBS News, 18 Dec. 2023
• In it, a dark copper statue sits—its face obscured by the hood of an ankle-length cloak, like a grim reaper in repose—amid barren branches in the snow.
  — Rebecca Panovka, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
• In the back of the small showroom, a blue dual-motor R1T pickup sat parked with a mountain bike atop the roof rack, its headlights glowing in repose.
  — Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2024
• Ginsburg has been lying in repose at the Supreme Court, where members of the public were invited to pay their respects.
  — CBS News, 25 Sep. 2020
• Logo points out an ostrich in mating position and a leopard in repose.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Jan. 2024
• The idea is never to leave a departed Justice alone; the ritual is an enduring one at the Court, but a Justice hasn’t laid in repose for such a long time in recent history.
  — Jay Wexler, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
• For Moore's cameo, the actress was filmed in repose on a leather couch opposite model Bella Hadid, who was also decked out in sultry, black underwear.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Oct. 2020
• The large scale canvas features a woman on an interior chaise lounge in repose and with glittering rhinestone accents that make the oil and acrylic pastiche glitter and glimmer.
  — Amy Carleton, Charlotte Observer, 29 Feb. 2024
• My favorite film acting is acting in repose, acting in reflection.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
• Ginsburg, who died on Friday at the age of 87 due to complications from cancer, will lie in repose under the portico at the top of the front steps to allow for public viewing outdoors on Wednesday and Thursday.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 23 Sep. 2020
• As if potting up channels on a studio mixing board, the sounds blended into a symphony that soon blossomed into a sonic fullness, the soundtrack of a river in repose.
  — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2023
• In scenes that find the Höss family in repose on the banks of the Sola, sound creates a canopy of futile escapism — the woodpeckers echoing the machine guns, the turtledoves grieving in the trees, the unceasing wails of Hedwig’s baby Annagret.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
• But the psychology and the practicalities of the story are ultimately thinly sketched, the abrupt transitions calculated to elide reflection in repose.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2021
• Animal Control is competent but not spirited, despite a relatively novel premise that allows as a matter of course for the majestic sight of a cougar in repose or the slapstick one of ostriches chasing after a terrified and confused man.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2023
• The report contends that, in repose to legal challenges and public concerns about straightforward bans on certain kinds of expression, proponents of censorship are increasingly trying to camouflage their tactics.
  — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
• For Emergence, Roger Reeves situates these icons in repose—sleep, domesticity, interiority, and mindfulness—and unpacks the rebellion inherent in their rest.
  — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Jan 2025