Sentence examples for reclining against from inspiring English sources

Stanford leaned on one elbow, reclining against some cushions, the very picture, I thought, of the rich man at leisure, tranquil and untroubled.

"It's a messed-up world," my new friend says, reclining against a backdrop of rampaging forest and assorted blues, the mainland twinkling through the fog.

When Ashoke arrives, the nurse is taking Ashima's blood pressure, and Ashima is reclining against a pile of pillows, the child wrapped like an oblong white parcel in her arms.

In August 1966, the International Congress of Mathematicians convened at Moscow State University, and it was there, reclining against a giant cylindrical pillar at least 5ft in diameter, that Conway turned a crucial corner.

Mr. Brannan's sole modification was to turn a kitchen shelf into a headboard, which allows him to work on his laptop computer, or strum his guitar, while reclining against a pillow.

(Penguin, $134 4. For those who don't relish the thought of reclining against the skin of a dead creature, there's always the animal print, which breezes through customs, doesn't shed and is a perennial favorite of decorators.

Then he reclined against the colt's side and held a carrot in his far hand as Brian craned his neck to nip it.

Groups of fasting men fingered prayer beads as they reclined against its yellow brick walls, while women watched their children run and laugh in the mosque square.

The once fearsome killer walked with a cane and spent long stretches of the trial hunched over his notes or reclined against the wooden rail of the dock.

Large canvasses recline against the walls; an apparently unfinished abstract drawing lies flat on a table; the desk is cluttered with art tools and creative detritus, leaving just enough empty space to accommodate his modest Apple laptop.

One visitor to the East End recently rode in on a jitney behind an emotional-support dog, who had his own seat, which he chose to recline against her knees.