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.”

  • One year, Lady Bird Johnson sells, the next she doesn't; or rather, one way we spin a story about her (icon in repose) works, but another way (long-suffering wife of a serial philanderer) doesn't.

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

  • 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.

  • What are “waters of repose”?


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