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Example sentences for: repose
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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.
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.
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.
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.