Example sentences for: armchair

How can you use “armchair” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • By a process of elimination, he and his buddy Michael O'Sullivan (David Kelly) end up at the remote stone house of Ned Devine--whom they find dead in his armchair with the ticket between his fingers, the shock of his windfall having felled him.

  • By 1961, Kusama had begun covering familiar objects--an armchair, a stepladder, a rowboat--with carefully sewn phalluses (, 1962).

  • I am moved to offer some armchair psychological analysis.

  • Since the Monica scandal broke, armchair shrinks have been psychologizing round-the-clock about the president's libido.

  • Vladimir Nabokov's taxonomies of Latin American butterflies, long disparaged as armchair entomology, turn out to be top-drawer science, according to a recent article in the New York Times . In the 1940s, the émigré novelist held a part-time job at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology and published the first attempted classification of an obscure group of blue butterflies known as Polyommatini . For years, Nabokov's study attracted more attention from literary critics than from scientists.


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