Sentence examples for chair backward from inspiring English sources

A petty officer spun a large wheel, flipping the chair backward with a gentle whoosh.

During class, L. hurled an eraser at another girl but instead hit a slight, dark-haired boy, who promptly scooted his chair backward at high speed, crashing into the desk of the students behind him.

He adopted various mannerisms and voices: He pulled up a chair in front of a student, straddled the chair backward, wheedled out a confession of some misdeed, and then roared, "Stupid!" He held up a card with the word "STOOPID," inviting students to identify their actions as such.

LANKY CHARLES KOCH, 63, tips his leather chair backward when he speaks, crossing one long leg over the other knee.

Leaning back in the chair with your feet forward a little but supporting your knees pushes the chair backward.

Don't lean your chair backward or slouch yourself forward while you're sitting, or you can strain your sciatic nerve and your shoulder muscles.

Other choices seemed random, such as having several dozen audience members sit on either side of the stage; they simply looked uncomfortable, and a few appeared to be edging their chairs backward as the evening went on.

In the case of Christopher Reeve — whose portrait was on her Southampton studio wall, next to that of Ms. Minnelli — he posed for her, straddling a chair turned backward, just weeks before the riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed, Ms. Davisson said.

Chairs tipped backward.

He planted his leg on a backward chair and assumed the lecturing position.

When E trains arrived, their thresholds were about 4 inches higher than the platform, making it virtually impossible for Mr. Trocchia to enter the train without his chair flipping over backward.