wing chair
Example Sentences
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He called his son-in-law “Meathead” and his wife “Dingbat,” and would snap at anyone who dared occupy his faded orange-yellow wing chair.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2023
Louise Penny stepped onto the stage of the small Theatre Lac-Brome in Knowlton, a village in Quebec’s postcard-pretty Eastern Townships 70 miles southeast of Montreal, and settled into a leather wing chair amid applause.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021
This proves not to be true as she casually tells us, over tea in a wing chair, the creepy story of her upbringing by a mother who believed herself to be possessed.
From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2019
“Mom was on the wing chair in the dim living room. Her hobbled body followed the slips and contours of the chair as if woven to it.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2015
The bedroom was crowded with furniture, and the wing chair, heavy and solid, was the most sensible spot for an elderly woman who was unsteady on her feet.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
