armchair

Example Sentences

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Many of the armchair sleuths hunting insiders are prediction-market traders themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

You can easily catch up on your Chinese from the comfort of your own armchair, at whatever time is most convenient for you.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

Brooke Shields would not consider herself an armchair detective by any means.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

The Musée Carnavalet, devoted to Paris history, offers free admission and features artifacts like Voltaire’s armchair.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

As I had said I would, I put a chair for him out on the front porch—a small upholstered armchair I got from my parents’ bedroom.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien