Example sentences for: supine

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

  • Chulay et al [ 22] found that turning the patient at 2-h intervals during the first 24 h after coronary artery bypass surgery decreased the incidence of fever and shortened ICU stay compared with patients remaining in the supine position.

  • It turns out that we stay with her so she can gaze, in passing, at an apartment house--so that the camera can travel up to and through a window and come upon Septimus supine on a sofa, contemplating--what?

  • About five hours later, his supine body was discovered by a secluded Civil War cannon near the Potomac River, a bullet wound through his mouth, his right thumb trapped in the trigger of an antique .38-caliber revolver, gun-shot residue on his hand, and blood oozing from the back of his head.

  • In Europe, anti-U.S. opinion remained strongest in France, where the conservative daily Le Figaro said in a front-page editorial Monday that the U.S. double standard in the Middle East--merciless toward Iraq for breaking international commitments but supine toward Israel when it does the same thing--"was bound to scandalize their Arab allies."

  • In a supine position, a tracheostomy was performed and an endotracheal tube (3.


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