How to Use supine in a Sentence

supine

adjective

• He was lying supine on the couch.
• France is worn out, she is made to be supine not made to fight.
  — Mark Mazower, The New York Review of Books, 16 Jan. 2020
• The most striking figure, at the center of the shot, in the foreground, is supine.
  — Mark Bowden, The Hive, 20 May 2017
• At one point, Delilah wanders over to a supine Sybert and attempts to snack on her ponytail.
  — Danielle Ohl, baltimoresun.com, 25 Aug. 2017
• Start in a supine position with your left leg bent and your right leg extended.
  — Philly.com, 5 July 2017
• With the corruption gone the glowing light transforms into the supine image of a girl suspended in the air.
  — Washington Post, 11 July 2019
• Well, sure it’s possible, so long as the supine sleuth has friends like Bo, who digs up the police files for his old boss and drives him around to possible crime scenes.
  — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 7 June 2017
• The most bizarre attraction was a merry-go-round, where the ladies, in all their finery, sat on supine Chinese mannequins and the gents rode serpent-like creatures.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
• Lie supine on a bolster or large pillow so that your entire back, shoulders, neck and head are supported.
  — Dana Santas, CNN, 19 Sep. 2017
• Together, the congregants pray over Benny, who’s lain supine on the altar on a simple cloth.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2017
• Something for the weeknight Rooftop Reds is a gift of a roof bar, where hammocks perched between potted grapevines offer supine views of Downtown Brooklyn.
  — New York Times, 28 Aug. 2019
• There are countless variations of supine twists which can be supported with props in many variations.
  — Justicia Declue, Philly.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• There has been a steady accretion of power by the executive, often as a result of a supine legislative branch.
  — Dan Balz, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Sep. 2019
• It is performed for supine audiences who are encouraged to doze off during the proceedings.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Mar. 2021
• Antitrust regulators have been supine for two decades, a key reason—along with winner-takes-all technology—for the decline in competition in the U.S.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2020
• Perhaps the most depressing reflection sparked by both books is on the supine nature of otherwise intelligent observers in the face of the coarse brutalities of dictatorships.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
• The talk is of overhauling a supine judiciary and strengthening parliamentary oversight.
  — The Economist, 17 May 2018
• The rules also prohibited physical restraints that could inhibit a student’s breathing, including prone and supine restraints.
  — Jennifer Smith Richards, chicagotribune.com, 4 Dec. 2019
• The bill would bar school personnel and police stationed on campus from physically restraining students in potentially life-threatening ways, like restricting their breathing or using a prone or supine restraint.
  — NBC News, 5 Oct. 2021
• Safe Act would bar school personnel and police stationed on campus from physically restraining students in potentially life-threatening ways, like restricting their breathing or using a prone or supine restraint.
  — NBC News, 26 May 2021
• An authoritarian and erratic leader, a chaotic Presidency, a supine legislature, a resistant permanent bureaucracy, street demonstrations, fear abroad: this is what illiberal regimes look like.
  — George Packer, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
• He was lying supine on the couch.
• France is worn out, she is made to be supine not made to fight.
  — Mark Mazower, The New York Review of Books, 16 Jan. 2020
• The most striking figure, at the center of the shot, in the foreground, is supine.
  — Mark Bowden, The Hive, 20 May 2017
• At one point, Delilah wanders over to a supine Sybert and attempts to snack on her ponytail.
  — Danielle Ohl, baltimoresun.com, 25 Aug. 2017
• Start in a supine position with your left leg bent and your right leg extended.
  — Philly.com, 5 July 2017
• With the corruption gone the glowing light transforms into the supine image of a girl suspended in the air.
  — Washington Post, 11 July 2019
• Well, sure it’s possible, so long as the supine sleuth has friends like Bo, who digs up the police files for his old boss and drives him around to possible crime scenes.
  — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 7 June 2017
• The most bizarre attraction was a merry-go-round, where the ladies, in all their finery, sat on supine Chinese mannequins and the gents rode serpent-like creatures.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
• Lie supine on a bolster or large pillow so that your entire back, shoulders, neck and head are supported.
  — Dana Santas, CNN, 19 Sep. 2017

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