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
  • Slept in a recliner for three full nights and part of the last two.
    Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 15 Dec. 2019
  • 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 arms of Jessie’s leather recliner were covered in drips of paint.
    Michelle Matthews | Mmatthews@al.com, al, 24 May 2020
  • And fans have to trade their revelry at the course for a view from the TV in a recliner.
    Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2020
  • Nakesha slept in a recliner at the foot of her mother’s bed in the den.
    Benjamin Weiser, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2018
  • The tickets sit next to him on the side table of his recliner.
    Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Cheer on your team at Manning's Sports Bar in one of the leather recliners.
    Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 15 July 2024
  • 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
  • In the next room, a pair of massive speakers and a state-of-the-art turntable sit in front of his favorite recliner.
    Ian Gassman, The Know, 19 Jan. 2017
  • 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
  • Two new-with-tags La-Z-Boy leather recliners for $100 apiece.
    Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2019
  • Miller knocked the recliner over and briefly stopped the attack, the court documents said.
    Everton Bailey Jr., OregonLive.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • But from my seat on the recliner, Oregon State's lack of fight in the second half bothered me.
    OregonLive.com, 28 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • His mother, Barbara Howard, balanced on the edge of the recliner and dabbed tears from her eyes.
    Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 21 Dec. 2017
  • This was a genius move by La-Z-Boy, and a great way to translate the famous recliner to pets.
    Maddie Hiatt, House Beautiful, 9 July 2019
  • The recliner engulfs the cramped room, its edges almost touching the walls.
    Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 18 June 2022
  • After the call, John sat down in his leather recliner and exhaled.
    Abe Streep, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Tran slept on the recliner with a flashlight within arm's reach to check on the rising water through the night.
    Joy Sewing, Houston Chronicle, 19 June 2018
  • All who enter the rear lair get the first-class treatment with heat and massage functions and two power-adjustable recliner seats.
    Josh Max, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Hilton walked through the open curtains into the next section of the cabin which had tan leather recliner seats and more pink blankets and cushions, and another bed towards the end with a TV placed on the wall.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 28 Oct. 2024

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