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recline

[ri-klahyn] / rɪˈklaɪn /


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Namely, those fees for everything including carry-on bags, soft drinks, coffee, cramped seats that didn’t recline and rocky reliability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

You ignore it picking up while you make your nest: secure the corners of your blanket, adjust your umbrella and finally, comfortably recline.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2025

The most balloon-like, airy element of this room is the plush bean bags, on which guests are encouraged to recline and relax.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2024

Others said it can get uncomfortable when passengers in front recline their seats too far back.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2024

No longer content to recline, it now reaches for the sky, much like the high-rise buildings lining our city streets.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

In another, a smiling Clinton reclines in a tub with his arms behind his head.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025

The nymph reclines on her side, resting on an urn, which in the past was used to send water into the banks of the lake below.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

All seats can be equipped with heating and ventilation, and the rear row reclines.

From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2022

While the chair reclines to a comfortable position, sleep is almost impossible given all the bells, whistles and alarms constantly going off around him from other patients.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2021

Another Cambridge mathematician, Alan Turing, reclines in a chair with his feet up on a wooden table, staring at the ceiling.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Eric Tung, a single dad and small-business owner in Los Angeles, dropped off his son at volleyball practice recently, reclined his seat and settled into Instagram.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

Ann Haeckl reclined on a cot — an American Red Cross blanket pulled over her — while her brother John sat nearby.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2025

For a decade, my therapy appointments required a 30-minute train ride to a mid-rise medical office building in suburban Philadelphia, where I reclined on a black leather couch, grabbing the occasional Kleenex.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2024

These rigs include everything you'd expect in your average F1 car, including a reclined seat, pedals and steering wheel in front of a big curved screen.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2024

He put in his earbuds and reclined with his hands behind his head.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

In the months leading up to summer, Paul Gunsky installed new reclining seats and immersive sound systems at his Bay Area CineLux Theatres chain in hopes that moviegoers would return in droves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Earlier research has linked greater amounts of sedentary behavior, including sitting, reclining, or lying down while awake, with poorer health outcomes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

At a pagoda in the suburb of Amarapura, a statue of a reclining Buddha emerges from a carefully arranged pile of brick rubble, its face respectfully cleaned.

From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026

On Saturdays, a Sacramento clinic repurposes the reclining chairs reserved for patients recovering from abortion procedures for the people coming in for the IVs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026

But then he started up and was soon way above me, reclining at the top of the tree and killing time until I arrived.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer


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