How to Use armchair in a Sentence

armchair

1 of 2 noun

• There’s always going to be the skeptics and the purists and the armchair critics.
  — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2023
• Throw it on an armchair, at the foot of your bed, or over that stain on your couch for a chic touch.
  — Andie Kanaras, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2023
• An hour later, the old beige armchair was back in the living room.
  — Michelle Slatalla, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2022
• The pages of the Sunday paper, the Observer, were spread across an armchair and the floor.
  — Ian McEwan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• The coverlet is by Le Rideau de Paris, and the armchair is Danish.
  — Kate McGregor, ELLE Decor, 21 Dec. 2022
• Most days, Michelle Lawson, 33, sips an iced tea there in her preferred armchair, with a clear view of the door.
  — Chiara Brown, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2022
• Tiny slivers of glass glinted on the hardwood floors, on the armchair next to the fireplace and on the tray atop an ottoman.
  — Nicole Carr, ProPublica, 13 May 2023
• Well, except for the bad stuff — the armchair experts, the name-calling on social media, the chorus and the doubt.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• On an armchair sat a photograph of Schoenberg holding a class in the same space.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• People leaped up from black velvet chaises and armchairs to join the fun.
  — Keyaira Boone, Essence, 11 Dec. 2023
• The mesh chair has a classic armchair design that’s offered in two colors—black and white.
  — Jamie Weissman, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Apr. 2023
• For contrast, there's a dark wood desk, deep brown armchair and black lantern-style pendant.
  — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 14 Dec. 2022
• There, in his room, is a corner with a tiny armchair, a short bookshelf, and a stuffed octopus.
  — Tara Bannow, STAT, 15 Aug. 2022
• In a living room make sure the carpet is at least big enough that the front two legs of the sofa and armchairs in the main seating area can sit on it.
  — Michelle Slatalla, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2023
• And, of course, no couch or armchair is complete without a warm blanket.
  — Ali Faccenda, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2023
• According to Christie’s, the armchair—along with thousands of other items—was sold soon after the queen’s death in 1793.
  — Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2022
• Like everybody can relate to armchair or front door, that sort of thing.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2023
• The minister also witnessed a heavy armchair in which the boy was sitting tilting to a side and tossing the boy on the floor.
  — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• That's why adult Lego sets can make for a unique and thoughtful gift for the former builder or armchair engineer in your life.
  — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 13 Dec. 2022
• Someone put me in a room with an armchair between two speakers.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• In the final photo, Stella hugged her mother as the pair stood in front of an armchair and pink balloons.
  — Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
• Sitting in his red armchair, Ramsey was already decked out for the day in his Trump 2024 hat and rubber Trump bracelets.
  — Sarah Ellison and Greg Jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2023
• This armchair has all the makings of a classic easy chair: wood frame, neutral upholstery and a roomy wide seat.
  — Heath Owens, Good Housekeeping, 26 Oct. 2022
• Festive pops of red on the armchair and mantel liven up the room's neutral décor.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2023
• Those lines started to show as the new leaders of Elche sat on leather armchairs in the mayor’s office last week and sought to put up a united front.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 9 July 2023
• The saying dismisses hand-wringers and armchair critics who gripe while others do the hard work.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
• Pedro Pascal jokes, before waving me over to the red velvet armchair set up next to him.
  — Melissah Yang, refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2023
• Lina Russ, 87, liked to sit in a tan armchair in the living room of her Takoma-area home, talking to her teenage grandkids as the local news played in the background.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
• Opt for soft, soothing materials like a bouclé headboard, velvet armchair, or warm wood nightstand.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, Sunset Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024
• Her account of that night was scrutinized by armchair sleuths, and she was relentlessly lampooned by entertainers and consumers.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2024

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armchair

2 of 2 adjective

• Maybe Sherman is a lot shrewder than the armchair agents think.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• That’s the armchair view of somebody who doesn’t run a business.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2019
• Lastly, there is such a thing as armchair travel with this app.
  — Adelaide Chen, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2017
• And that includes the armchair observers such as myself.
  — J. Michael, Indianapolis Star, 6 Apr. 2018
• Thanks to the viral video, armchair donations have spread across the country.
  — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Dana Walk was a machinist with a wife and three children, an armchair coach for his beloved Green Bay Packers.
  — Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2020
• Prior to the tournament, an armchair pundit or two may have labelled them the 'dark horse', or a team who could 'surprise a few'.
  — SI.com, 12 July 2018
• In the second half of the book, Susan morphs from armchair detective to amateur sleuth.
  — David Martindale, star-telegram.com, 30 May 2017
• The producers spend months building it up only for armchair critics to knock it down.
  — Mara Reinstein, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2019
• What does all that mean for the armchair Nobel Prize speculator?
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2019
• To say such things is just armchair quarterbacking of the most cynical kind.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 1 Apr. 2020
• Over the last few years, the works of Aristotle and Galileo have come up against armchair astronomers who believe, like really believe, the Earth is flat.
  — Cassandra Santiago and Aj Willingham, CNN, 25 Sep. 2017
• How did armchair travelers see the world a century ago?
  — Lisa Kalis, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2017
• As many sites and armchair astrologists will tell you, the Sagittarius is a fire sign who loves adventure and is drawn to those who prefer the same.
  — Mariah Smith, The Cut, 28 Mar. 2018
• This unfortunately won't be the first or last time Graham has to deal with armchair critics, but she's learned how to handle them.
  — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 9 Oct. 2017
• Taaffe has been among many armchair QBs throughout the country dissecting Bortles in recent weeks.
  — George Diaz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• Wildlife officials, for some reason, are not relying on the armchair theories about the wolflike creature.
  — Author: Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2018
• The Washington players were stunned too, having come to an armchair consensus at their restaurant.
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• Armchair cooks and armchair travelers who don’t cook at all — or actual travelers looking for where or what to eat away from home.
  — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Dec. 2019
• But as even armchair economists know, these developments have been a long time coming.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2018
• For the armchair traveler, the one prepping for an upcoming trip, or those just looking to reminisce about a recent vacation, these books will do the trick.
  — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Nov. 2019
• Fret not; even if a picture-perfect getaway isn’t on your schedule, there’s plenty of inspiration and armchair travel to pick up on from the celebrities who do it best.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 16 July 2019
• What all those armchair quarterbacks didn't know at the time was that there was not simply one ethical dilemma evident in this story – there are two.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2017
• What all those armchair quarterbacks didn’t know at the time was that there was not simply one ethical dilemma evident in this story, but two.
  — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2017
• The group says that a psychic technique called remote viewing allows people to take an armchair visit to other planets.
  — Fox News, 25 Jan. 2012
• Like the dream sequence in the original series, these Black Lodge sequences will undoubtedly be pored over by armchair sleuths looking for clues to unlock the grander mystery of the series.
  — Scott Meslow, GQ, 22 May 2017
• There is a sense of entitlement to people’s trauma and a kind of gleeful armchair detective work that doesn’t come with the gravitas of the situation.
  — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 12 Nov. 2019
• Boston is no different than any other team in the NHL, with players hiding injuries at a rate unfathomable to us armchair athletes.
  — Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2019
• Kennedy invites armchair adventurers to help identify more objects by scouring the area on Google Earth for themselves.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 Oct. 2017
• Two weeks ago, national and world health authorities—and armchair experts and worried well-meaning people—were warning anyone concerned about Covid-19 to avoid ibuprofen.
  — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 26 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024