Sentence examples for and tilt back from inspiring English sources

They are sitting in old-fashioned wooden office chairs, the kind that swivel and tilt back on springs.

She would look up, turn the knob to stop the gas, pull down the breathing mask and tilt back her visor, showing her freckled face.

I would ask a question; he would smile and tilt back in his chair and look upward, as if searching the ceiling for small imperfections, and say, "Let me see if I can answer that by rephrasing something I said in my book" — "Inside Terrorism" (1998) — "or my testimony" (he testified before a House subcommittee in late September).

With Crossfader, you just swipe between songs, pick two you like, and tilt back and forth to mix them into a mashup.

Do this while holding on to your handlebars, and tilt back a little.

Quite often I'm… "Gardening!" the girl said, and tilted back in her chair the way she knew would get a reaction.

His right eye was almost swollen shut as he sat down and tilted back his head to receive more eye solution from the trainer Ron Culp.

The New Yorker, November 13 , 2006P. 84 "Gardening!" the girl said, and tilted back in her chair the way she knew would get a reaction.

By Helen Simpson The New Yorker, November 13 , 2006P. 84 "Gardening!" the girl said, and tilted back in her chair the way she knew would get a reaction.

For Islamic veils, mandatory by law at all times in public, they wore silk squares of lime green, shocking pink or electric blue, tied under the chin like a Fifties housewife, and tilted back at an angle.

Each Linc had a tiny screen and keyboard and comprised four metal modules, which together were about as big as two television sets, set side by side and tilted back slightly.