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She likes a recumbent bicycle.recumbent = lying down (a bicycle ridden in a reclined position)
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Matisse titled the work, "A Recumbent Woman."recumbent = lying down
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Too terrified of crevasses to wander far from camp, I spent most of my time recumbent in the tent, the ceiling was too low to allow my sitting upright, fighting a rising chorus of doubts. (source)
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Behind Newton's recumbent body rose an austere pyramid. (source)
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...and sycamores with mottled, white, recumbent limbs and branches that arch over the pool. (source)recumbent = horizontal
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From a recumbent position he looked up at Mr. Blore and said with immense dignity: "I'm talking to you, young man." (source)recumbent = lying down
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Rise, sir, from this semi-recumbent posture. (source)recumbent = lying down; or horizontal
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The recumbency and the peace of the dead impress me—warriors at rest under their old banners.† (source)
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the gates were all blocked up with the sloping drifts, and here and there a disregarded four-footed beast stood as if petrified "in unrecumbent sadness";† (source)unrecumbent = not lying down; or not horizontalstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrecumbent means not and reverses the meaning of recumbent. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Why, for the latter, of course, for a private discussion, the consul assured her from his recumbent position. (source)recumbent = lying down
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It glided noiselessly towards the recumbent woman. (source)
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The curtains of his bed were drawn aside; and Scrooge, starting up into a half-recumbent attitude, found himself face to face with the unearthly visitor who drew them: as close to it as I am now to you, and I am standing in the spirit at your elbow. (source)
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Yes, we became very wakeful; so much so that our recumbent position began to grow wearisome, and by little and little we found ourselves sitting up; the clothes well tucked around us, leaning against the head-board with our four knees drawn up close together, and our two noses bending over them, as if our kneepans were warming-pans. (source)
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I should respectfully suggest a recumbent posture, then put yourself in also and call it 'Dolce far niente.' (source)recumbent = lying down; or horizontal
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A couple of paces distant, at the foot of the hedge on the other side, exactly at the point where the gap which he was meditating would have been made, there was a sort of recumbent stone which formed a bench, and on this bench was seated the old man of the garden, while the old woman was standing in front of him. (source)
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Somewhere in the recumbent solitudes, the motionless but teeming millions of books, lost in two dozen turns right, three dozen turns left, down aisles, through doors, toward dead ends, locked doors, half-empty shelves, somewhere in the literary soot of Dickens's London, or Dostoevsky's Moscow or the steppes beyond, somewhere in the vellumed dust of atlas or Geographic, sneezes pent but set like traps, the boys crouched, stood, lay sweating a cool and constant brine.† (source)
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