armchair

Example Sentences

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Grandfather, who puffs on Gauloises cigarettes, resembles Baroness Orczy’s Old Man in the Corner, an armchair detective who solves crimes from the confines of a London tea shop.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

I am blindfolded and seated in a vintage armchair set in the center of a darkened, red-lit room with Gothic accents.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Francisco Gonzalez, a 79-year-old retiree, also said he had a sleepless night in the dark, "sitting in an armchair at home, waiting for the power to come back on."

From Barron's • Mar. 22, 2026

On a Saturday night in November 2001, 91-year-old Mabel Leyshon was watching TV in her favourite armchair.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026

I’m sitting in the armchair by the open window, watching the slow turn from indigo to periwinkle dawn to light gray morning.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day