How to Use repose in a Sentence

repose

1 of 2 noun

• The dense stand of young trees at the back of my lot offers no such repose.
  — Bill Finch, al, 20 July 2023
• Lori asked the faithful to pray for the repose of the soul of the former pope, who was the first to resign in 600 years.
  — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2023
• And that, Harris says, is where the rubber meets the repose.
  — Eleanor Cummins, Popular Science, 27 Oct. 2020
• Members of the public had a chance to pay their respects on Friday, when Bush lay in repose at the church.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2018
• Let’s hope that Norman found a few such moments of repose toward the end.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2019
• An old woman summoned from the repose of her mirror by the chants of children.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 13 June 2023
• At this time our prayers are for the repose of the soul of our resident Pauline Ballon and with her family.
  — Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com, 19 July 2017
• There’s the repose on the left side, with the heaving making the right upper arm go up and down, as with Norway’s Lotta Udnes Weng.
  — Chuck Culpepper, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2022
• Her head, in repose, fell forward, chin resting on chest.
  — Josh Roiland, Longreads, 1 Jan. 1950
• Yet there's a profound sense of order and repose, as if one had come upon a light-dappled glade.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2017
• Get there early to scope out the perfect place for repose on the soft sand (a rarity among the country’s rocky beaches).
  — Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2023
• But no such repose is in the cards for Claudia Rankine, who wrote the play these actors are rehearsing.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 6 Mar. 2020
• For the dead headed to eternal repose at Brookwood, the process was fairly simple.
  — National Geographic, 29 Oct. 2020
• Here's why: The bill seeks to undue the Supreme Court ruling in the Myers case and again impose that cutoff, or what in legal terms is called a statute of repose.
  — Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 25 Feb. 2018
• The Thinker’s repose was interrupted in September 2000, when it was moved indoors ahead of the restoration of the south plaza.
  — Randal Doane, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
• The images that followed were in stark contrast with Ms. Yasenchok’s serene repose.
  — Lisa W. Foderaro, New York Times, 19 June 2017
• Young men awaiting haircuts and makeup were draped across couches in stages of repose.
  — Ben Detrick, New York Times, 29 June 2018
• For Michelle and Jenner, the choice of minimalism has become a repose.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2021
• Three of her life-size headless figures on plinths, sited on smaller lawns around the park, will play off just such a woman in repose.
  — Hilarie M. Sheets, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
• The heart of this piece is its arrival at a few bars of repose near the end of the last movement, a moment of bittersweet, heart-stopping suspension.
  — Marcus Overton, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• Women, some of them nude, some of them clothed in flowing garments, lie in repose within the canvasses.
  — Brienne Walsh, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• Unable to find a moment of repose, the performance always seemed slightly out of breath.
  — Marcus Overton, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 May 2018
• The free-surfing equivalent is the soul arch—a casual, stylish moment of repose.
  — Jamie Brisick, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
• Members of the public were allowed to pay their respects Friday as Bush lay in repose at St. Martin's.
  — Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN, 21 Apr. 2018
• If the player so chooses, Edward can sit in quiet repose at different places in the village and sketch the landmarks around him.
  — Washington Post, 6 June 2019
• To eat out in Moscow is to begin to understand the city's social order and get a close-up view of its various clans in repose.
  — Alex Halberstadt, Town & Country, 9 Oct. 2015
• As the wind flowed through her long, black skirt, Hadid held a gloved hand over her chest and tilted her head back as in repose (#SuperCasual).
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Dec. 2019
• On a green leather sofa, Cara Delevingne lies down on her stomach, a portrait of repose with her head propped against the armrest and her eyes clear and unflinching.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Aug. 2019
• Raphael surely saw the Pantheon as prime real estate for his eternal repose, but this wasn’t simply his ego at work.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 Sep. 2020
• The slow opening movement, the upbeat and lively second and third movements, and then the sinking into an adagio, a slow repose.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018

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repose

2 of 2 verb

• The hour had come to repose the Blessed Sacrament, to move it from exposition to rest.
  — New York Times, 26 June 2021
• Today, when people repose by themselves in bed at night, a buzz of friends and strangers emanates from their screens.
  — Nika Mavrody, The Atlantic, 19 May 2017
• And that is why 125 crore countrymen have been able to repose faith in our governance.
  — Time Staff, Time, 15 Aug. 2017
• Explore the many natural beauties of the state that repose in its parks, beaches and mountains.
  — WSJ, 13 Apr. 2021
• Finally, in Bill’s magic package reposed a miniature three-legged stool inside a clear jar with a white lid.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2019
• Breathtaking wide-angle shots of the sky and beach offer the same sense of freedom and repose that characterizes the easygoing tune.
  — Bryan Kress, Billboard, 17 Jan. 2020
• In a second photograph, the singer can be seen reposing nonchalantly in a bed, wearing the same jumpsuit and covered in part by white bedsheets.
  — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 23 June 2017
• In fact, the nearby Henry Mountains, later to be immortalized by a candy bar, repose in the last area in the continental U.S. to be mapped.
  — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 24 Mar. 2020
• This influence is evident in the way the leads’ full frontal nudity, specifically, is shown in moments of quiet and repose.
  — Eleanor Stanford, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• The questions are sometimes amalgams of several highly similar questions posed or reposed during the course of a discussion on one topic.
  — Chris Wilson, Time, 20 Feb. 2020
• Preparing the next generation While her generation has been hard at work in saving and restoring forests, Bisoyi has reposed faith in the next generation to not only take up the mantle but improve on it.
  — Pragati Prava, Quartz India, 26 Jan. 2020
• Xiao long bao were another animal altogether, thin-skinned purses gently swollen with light broth, the amniotic potion in which a small, seasoned serving of meat reposed.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 5 July 2019
• Ojih Odutola's ability to capture movement and repose felt symbolic.
  — Osayi Endolyn, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 May 2020
• The hour had come to repose the Blessed Sacrament, to move it from exposition to rest.
  — New York Times, 26 June 2021
• Today, when people repose by themselves in bed at night, a buzz of friends and strangers emanates from their screens.
  — Nika Mavrody, The Atlantic, 19 May 2017
• And that is why 125 crore countrymen have been able to repose faith in our governance.
  — Time Staff, Time, 15 Aug. 2017
• Explore the many natural beauties of the state that repose in its parks, beaches and mountains.
  — WSJ, 13 Apr. 2021
• Finally, in Bill’s magic package reposed a miniature three-legged stool inside a clear jar with a white lid.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2019
• Breathtaking wide-angle shots of the sky and beach offer the same sense of freedom and repose that characterizes the easygoing tune.
  — Bryan Kress, Billboard, 17 Jan. 2020
• In a second photograph, the singer can be seen reposing nonchalantly in a bed, wearing the same jumpsuit and covered in part by white bedsheets.
  — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 23 June 2017
• In fact, the nearby Henry Mountains, later to be immortalized by a candy bar, repose in the last area in the continental U.S. to be mapped.
  — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 24 Mar. 2020
• This influence is evident in the way the leads’ full frontal nudity, specifically, is shown in moments of quiet and repose.
  — Eleanor Stanford, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• The questions are sometimes amalgams of several highly similar questions posed or reposed during the course of a discussion on one topic.
  — Chris Wilson, Time, 20 Feb. 2020
• Preparing the next generation While her generation has been hard at work in saving and restoring forests, Bisoyi has reposed faith in the next generation to not only take up the mantle but improve on it.
  — Pragati Prava, Quartz India, 26 Jan. 2020
• Xiao long bao were another animal altogether, thin-skinned purses gently swollen with light broth, the amniotic potion in which a small, seasoned serving of meat reposed.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 5 July 2019
• Ojih Odutola's ability to capture movement and repose felt symbolic.
  — Osayi Endolyn, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 May 2020
• The hour had come to repose the Blessed Sacrament, to move it from exposition to rest.
  — New York Times, 26 June 2021
• Today, when people repose by themselves in bed at night, a buzz of friends and strangers emanates from their screens.
  — Nika Mavrody, The Atlantic, 19 May 2017
• And that is why 125 crore countrymen have been able to repose faith in our governance.
  — Time Staff, Time, 15 Aug. 2017
• Explore the many natural beauties of the state that repose in its parks, beaches and mountains.
  — WSJ, 13 Apr. 2021

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