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Examples

  • A warming planet will not be all lounge-chair basking.

    Monumental effort Tom Toles 2011

  • Without hesitating a nanosecond, Robertson half-chuckled his answer, telling the viewer in no uncertain terms that if he thinks he is just going to spend eternity lying in a lounge-chair on a cloud, well, he's got another thing coming.

    Paul Abrams: Could Pat Robertson Be Mormon? 2009

  • Then he opened it, and found her seated in a lounge-chair, with her back to the door, and he could see that she had a volume of a novel in her hand.

    The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

  • As a rule she is lying on the sofa or in a lounge-chair reading.

    The Wife 2004

  • I had placed the lounge-chair in a safe and shady position.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 19, 1891 Various

  • He flung himself down in a deep lounge-chair and placed the receiver to his ear.

    The Crimson Blind

  • Hawkes gestured Alan to a seat; Alan chose a green lounge-chair with quivering springs and stretched out.

    Starman's Quest Robert Silverberg

  • Humbler guests poured each night from the termini into the overflowing city, and sought anxiously for some bed, lounge-chair, or pillowed corner, in which to rest until the morning.

    The Happy Foreigner Enid Bagnold 1935

  • Humbler guests poured each night from the termini into the overflowing city, and sought anxiously for some bed, lounge-chair, or pillowed corner, in which to rest until the morning.

    The Happy Foreigner 1920

  • Seton Pasha, who occupied the lounge-chair upon the broad arm of which his wife was seated, looked up, smiling into the suddenly flushed face.

    Dope Sax Rohmer 1921

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