Example sentences for: repose

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

  • This translator has replaced “He leadeth me beside the still waters” by “To the waters of repose he leads me.”

  • In the ravishing Lady in Blue of 1874, the adaptive model Emma Dobigny (a favorite of Degas as well) shows off a cascade of blue cloth--she's a waterfall in repose.

  • In repose, it is a chiseled mask, with avian eyes that give away little; then, swamped by feeling, those features wiggle and crack and loosen from their moorings.

  • At the best of times he winces, in repose appearing ulcerous; in the throes of a panic attack, he might be struggling with an Alien -like parasite about to burst through his chest.

  • Bob Barr, R-Ga., who looks explosive even in repose, has turned an even beetier shade of red than usual.


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