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Examples

  • Patients with office-chair problems account for 10% of his practice, double from a decade ago, he says.

    Does Your Chair Have Your Back? Sue Shellenbarger 2011

  • The office-chair jig has become my favorite new dance.

    Married to the Military Meredith Leyva 2009

  • The office-chair jig has become my favorite new dance.

    Married to the Military Meredith Leyva 2009

  • Mr. Masters was not a man who could, usually, stand this kind of thing very long and was accustomed to give up in despair and then take himself off to the solace of his office-chair.

    The American Senator 2004

  • The mule was drawing a very amusing little cart, a chair, rather like a round office-chair upholstered in red velvet, and mounted on two wheels.

    The Captain's Doll 2003

  • Dave plunked into a large executive's chair that had seen its glory days pass by and now resided in office-chair purgatory.

    The Emerald Triangle Archer, Miles 2003

  • While she sat there on the hard office-chair, she was still waiting patiently for Pyle.

    The Quiet American Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 1955

  • But now, sitting in his office-chair, he began to wonder what the man had made such a fuss about.

    The Man Upstairs and Other Stories 1928

  • At the moment of her entry he had been lying back in an office-chair, so that only a merely nominal section of his upper structure was visible.

    Jill the Reckless 1928

  • Distinctly I heard the creak of the revolving office-chair as Slattin rose; then Smith had me by the arm, and we were flying swiftly away from the door to take up our former post around the angle of the building.

    The Devil Doctor Sax Rohmer 1921

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