How to Use recliner in a Sentence

recliner

noun
  • Smit looked across the room at Dis, asleep in the recliner.
    jsonline.com, 31 Aug. 2021
  • By the third day, John was able to sit in the recliner for four hours.
    Lauren Caruba, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Inky had launched out of the chair as soon as workers pulled the recliner from the truck.
    Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Here, a line of rocks, each the size of a big-man recliner, looks like the back of a stegosaurus dinosaur.
    Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The tickets sit next to him on the side table of his recliner.
    Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2021
  • At night, Corbett sits in a recliner in the chapel and pulls up a blanket.
    Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Fuentes sat in a recliner with a blanket over the lower half of her body.
    Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2022
  • When there was a rare lull, George said, his mom would come into the house, lay in the recliner and put her feet up.
    Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 July 2022
  • Then the basement flooded again, and out went the new recliner.
    New York Times, 17 Oct. 2021
  • That’s easy to forget when you’re laid out on the recliner, getting a full blast.
    Bill Finch, al, 3 July 2023
  • Just note that it’s a straight recliner that doesn’t rock or swivel.
    Popsci Commerce Team, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Plus, a crib, a dresser, a recliner chair, and a pom pom blanket.
    Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 3 May 2021
  • Which is a way of saying that his body odor is starting to be able to get up off the recliner and go for a walk in his stead.
    Han Ong, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • The recliner engulfs the cramped room, its edges almost touching the walls.
    Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 18 June 2022
  • The homeowner wanted the space to include a recliner, a sofa, and a TV that could be viewed from the kitchen.
    Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 22 Feb. 2024
  • For years, a picture of a horse had hung behind Biden, Sr.,’s recliner.
    Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Then the therapists convinced him to sit in a recliner for an hour.
    Lauren Caruba, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The deputy peered through the window and saw a deceased person sitting in a recliner, Stark said.
    Summer Linstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • There was talk of walking the track to survey the route, but then Gatting found a leather recliner and sank into it.
    Vera Carothers, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • In Abilene, a husband was found frozen to death in his recliner, his wife clinging to his side.
    Brian Chasnoff, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Sitting in a plush brown recliner, his beef stroganoff dinner on a tray before him, Jester tried V.R. for the first time.
    New York Times, 26 Apr. 2022
  • His daily routine was to come downstairs from bed and sprawl in a recliner, sleeping for two-thirds of the day.
    Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Axel three-piece sectional recliner, there’s no need to fight over who gets to stretch out on the chaise.
    Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2022
  • His daughter, Denise O’Brien, brought him in his geriatric recliner, along with his dog, Lucky, to the parade.
    Sydney Page, Anchorage Daily News, 9 July 2023
  • With West Elm’s Axel three-piece sectional recliner, there’s no need to fight over who gets to stretch out on the chaise.
    Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The recliner where Albert Hoelscher's wife sat for days and nights in the bone-chilling cold is now empty.
    Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2021
  • This 3-in-1 convertible chair can be used as an arm chair, guest bed or a recliner.
    Annie O’Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 21 June 2023
  • Whereas Freeform mode functions like a recliner with a handle to raise and lower the legs.
    Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The living room of the Hillemanns' motor coach includes a recliner chair and couch, as well as a large TV and fireplace.
    Robyn A. Friedman, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Saban said his wife bought him a recliner for his office to take a power nap.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 2 Dec. 2021

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