Example sentences for: reclining

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

  • Primitive pottery is on display — including a rather naïve clay bull with an acrobat holding one horn — and finer work such as a stone pyxis (jewelry box) incised with geometric patterns and a reclining animal.

  • The museum’s highlight is a life-size, sixth-century b.c. terracotta sculpture of a reclining couple that was used as the lid of a sarcophagus.

  • The biggest single work, an immense reclining Buddha 29 m (96 ft) long, is surrounded by the infinitely smaller statues of lifelike disciples.

  • 158 is filled with a statue of the reclining Buddha, the face unusually peaceful and godly when seen from the far left.

  • Besides the celebrated reclining figures, look for the formidable skull-like design from which the Nuclear Energy monument was cast for the University of Chicago.


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