deck chair

Example Sentences

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But it’d be like rearranging your deck chair on a sinking ship that’s already asked you to leave.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2023

In 2012, he disassembled one of his streetside finds, merging the steel legs and vinyl seat of a G.D.R. industrial chair with the back and arms of a plastic monoblock West German deck chair.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2023

The deck chair was recovered at sea after the sinking by John Williams, manager of Ensor's Marine Salvage Company in Queenstown.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2022

One deck chair was rearranged last week when the Nationals fired pitching coach Derek Lilliquist.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2019

At eleven o’clock I was stretched out on a deck chair, my steamer rug over my legs.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz