The phrase "a seat back" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the part of a chair or vehicle that supports the back of a person sitting down.
Example: "The airplane was equipped with comfortable seats, each featuring a reclining seat back for added comfort during the flight."
Alternatives: "backrest" or "chair back".
"Putting a melting chocolate bar in a seat back is a way of punishing the airline for shoddy treatment," said Robert Bor, a clinical aviation psychologist in London.
Seth Kaplan, who'd been a pediatric oncologist, pages through periodicals left in a seat back on a Singapore Airlines jet, on the ground at LAX.
Might you someday find yourself being taken off a plane for being uncooperative, kicking a seat back or caviling with a flight attendant (all real reasons that you can be removed)?
I got a seat!" Back at Grand Central Terminal, devoid of its characteristic buzz, a worker told would-be Metro-North riders that he could not say when service would resume.
The aluminum frame has wheels that pivot outward to stabilize, the telescoping handle acts as a seat back, and an upholstered seat invites you to take a load off.
The transaction puts the value of a seat back to what it was from April to June; the most ever paid for a seat was $2.65 million, in August.
But he would like a seat-back DVD player.
Karen from Boston said she found a Day-Timer with contact information in a seat-back pocket and returned it by mail to the owner.
When he travels, he sleeps in it, too; in the back were a sleeping bag, a bottle of Scope Original Mint mouthwash and a pair of nunchucks he keeps in a seat-back pocket.
He then explained that Virgin America learnt from passengers' tweets that they didn't like the on-board catering trolleys blocking the aisles, so they adopted a seat-back ordering system.
Gibson said that when tested the debris, which includes parts of the wings, tail and a seat-back from inside the cabin, could determine mechanical failure or external attack.
