CHAIR in a Sentence

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329 example sentences for CHAIR, such as:

1. He was sitting in a chair.
2. Mary sat down in her chair.
3. Fred lazed in an easy chair.
4. He laid his coat over a chair.
5. Sonny tilted back in his chair.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHAIR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
chair
 n.  a seat for one person, with a support for the back
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Sherlock Holmes rose softly and moved his chair in the direction of the door.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
2  I wouldn't have the Scotland Yarders know it for the world," he cried, dropping into his chair; "I have chaffed them so much that they would never have let me hear the end of it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
3  Gregson sprang out of his chair and upset the remainder of his whiskey and water.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
4  "It was quite thick enough before," grumbled Lestrade, taking a chair.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
5  The man's novel, with which he had read himself to sleep was lying upon the bed, and his pipe was on a chair beside him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
6  Sherlock Holmes sprang from his chair with an exclamation of delight.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
7  It can't be a coincidence," he cried, at last springing from his chair and pacing wildly up and down the room; "it is impossible that it should be a mere coincidence.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
8  With these words, Jefferson Hope leaned back in his chair and began the following remarkable statement.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
9  For whole days at a time he would lounge in his Windsor chair in the kitchen, reading the newspapers, drinking, and occasionally feeding Moses on crusts of bread soaked in beer.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
10  Sitting on her three-cornered chair she swayed, with her dark pigtails hanging, and her body like a bolster in its faded dressing-gown.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
11  which she was forced to do, rising at last from her chair, in her faded dressing-gown, with the pigtails falling over each shoulder.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
12  He had read his paper; he was drowsy; and so sank down into the chintz-covered chair with the dog at his feet--the Afghan hound.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
13  The dream hand clenched; the real hand lay on the chair arm, the veins swollen but only with a brownish fluid now.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
14  "Oh," she sighed, pegged down on a chair arm, like a captive balloon, by a myriad of hair-thin ties into domesticity.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
15  She held her deck chair at the wrong angle.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
Example Sentence: (119 in 8 pages)
16  The garden chair unfolds to make a camp - bed.
17  Melanie plunked her cosmetic case down on a chair.
18  She shifted uncomfortably in her chair.
19  You can adjust the height of the chair.
20  We padded the seat of the chair with camel hair to make it soft.
21  He was sitting in a chair.
22  He dropped his briefcase on a chair.
23  Sonny tilted back in his chair.
24  Stop rocking the chair;you are making so much noise.
25  You could stuff the chair with this torn material.
26  Mary sat down in her chair.
27  He swivelled in his chair to face us.
28  I was sitting on a wobbly plastic chair.
29  He laid his coat over a chair.
30  Fred lazed in an easy chair.