Sentence examples for elevated chair from inspiring English sources

Using their own wages, and backed by a powerful union, they paid for a "reader" who sat in an elevated chair and began the morning with the news and political commentary.

One Wednesday a month for nearly twenty-two years, Mayor Richard M. Daley of Chicago has presided — in especially literal fashion — over the City Council from an elevated chair that looms over the chamber before him.

By Evan Osnos September 8, 2010 One Wednesday a month for nearly twenty-two years, Mayor Richard M. Daley of Chicago has presided — in especially literal fashion — over the City Council from an elevated chair that looms over the chamber before him.

The popes were carried in the sedia gestatoria -- essentially an elevated chair -- as they processed to St. Peter's Basilica or to St. John Lateran.

There was little to occupy the lifeguards, perched in elevated chairs under orange umbrellas, and wide stretches of sand were vacant.

Some climbed into the bleachers; others gathered on the field, where an array of blue and white plastic lawn chairs faced an elevated stand reserved for the President and his men.

As "Pomp and Circumstance" played, the seniors, in their powder-blue gowns and square caps, took seats in rows of folding chairs facing an elevated platform where Sandberg; Debora Spar, the president of Barnard; and other luminaries sat.

For "Rockaby" (1980), Ms. Goldoni sits in a rocking chair on an elevated platform, her character ruminating on her life.

Orton and Kane eventually headed back into the ring, where Orton was unable to beat Kane despite multiple pin attempts after repeated chair shots, an elevated DDT onto the floor and a superplex.

A trio of very fat girls had settled down in overstuffed chairs on an elevated area to the left of the small stage.

He soon struggled, however, to hit those high notes from his elevated "throne," which was really a chair adorned by a halo of guitar necks.