How to Use recline in a Sentence

recline

verb

• The theater has reclining seats.
• He reclined his seat so that he could nap more comfortably.
• She was reclining on the sofa, watching TV.
• The worst seats are the ones in the rear of the aircraft, which don’t recline.
  — Christopher Elliott, The Seattle Times, 23 July 2018
• At his wake, Matthews was placed in the front of the room in a reclining chair.
  — Nihal Kolur, SI.com, 9 July 2018
• The seats didn't recline, and the air was thick with restroom odors.
  — Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 July 2023
• There was room – so much room! – to recline, to spread your legs, to rest.
  — Karen Heller, The Know, 15 Sep. 2019
• Both the canopy and the basket are wide, and the seat reclines nearly flat for naps.
  — Jessica Hartshorn and Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 15 Feb. 2023
• All of the extra space went into the cab, adding to recline space for the rear seats.
  — Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2018
• Each of the reclining leather seats is 2-½ feet wide, with four feet of leg room.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• This is a set of clamps that prevent the seat in front of you from reclining.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 13 Feb. 2020
• The seat reclines three-quarters of the way, which should be enough to get your napper to fall asleep.
  — Sara Gaynes Levy, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2023
• Her son slept in a reclining chair, and one daughter slept on the couch.
  — Ted Conover, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• The right to recline your seat has its limits, at least in China.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2022
• Click on that to recline the chair and the chick and the duck appear, quacking and squeaking and walking around on the bottom of the screen.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 19 Sep. 2019
• As the storm descended, the diners began to recline, and the wine flowed.
  — Meara Sharma, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2019
• Treat yourself and lie back on a reclining lawn chair and take it all in!
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 29 Sep. 2019
• Josephson reclined and stared out the window and wondered if the car had any heat.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• To recline the chair, pull on the side buckles and lean back and the straps will loosen, making the chair recline to your liking.
  — Amanda Ogle, Southern Living, 25 Aug. 2023
• Yancy loves nothing more than to recline in his deck chair and let the ocean view wash over him.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 14 Aug. 2024
• Everyone has the right to recline — but there’s a polite way to do it.
  — Kristie Koerbel, New York Times, 24 May 2023
• The seats don’t recline, and the unusual setup doesn’t help on legroom.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 10 July 2019
• The rear seats recline and offer room for full-size riders or child seats.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 20 Sep. 2022
• Most people reclined their seats and tried to catch a little sleep.
  — Christopher Maag, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2020
• The rear seat also reclines and has 8 inches of fore and aft travel.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 16 Mar. 2018
• The biggest perk, though, is that all 68 seats on the plane will fully recline into a lie-flat.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 8 June 2023
• His throne is fully reclined and draped in a fleece Raiders blanket.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024
• Griffin points out that the fireplace is raised so that one can see the fire while reclining in bed.
  — Joan Walden, courant.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• The carbon buckets don’t recline much and are mounted high enough in the cabin that the top of the windshield frame will block a straight line of sight for taller drivers.
  — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2024
• The business class cabin features a 25-inch-wide chair that can be reclined into a two-meter-long bed.
  — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024