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The Olympic luge team hits speeds of 80 m.p.h. while supine on their sled.supine = lying down face upward
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So Ender walked to Stilson's supine body and kicked him again, viciously, in the ribs. (source)
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'You!' she shrieked at Dudley, still supine on the alley floor. (source)
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Then, on a sudden but apparently pressing impulse, he stretched out supine on the carpet. (source)
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By Richmond I raised my knees Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe. (source)
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Impatient with "supineness," as he said, and ambitious for a command of his own, Burgoyne had sailed for England in early December.† (source)
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I executed a backflip and landed behind the supine mech in a crouch.† (source)supine = lying down face upward
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In his almost inexplicable apathy he was content to droop supinely while Carrie drifted out of his life, just as he was willing supinely to see opportunity pass beyond his control.† (source)
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But the most dangerous effect of the exhaustion steadily gaining on all engaged in the fight against the epidemic did not consist in their relative indifference to outside events and the feelings of others, but in the slackness and supineness that they allowed to invade their personal lives.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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The fact that he got through his supines without mistake the next day, encouraged him to persevere in this appendix to his prayers, and neutralized any scepticism that might have arisen from Mr. Stelling's continued demand for Euclid.† (source)
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From my supine perch on the back of the police car, I noticed an older woman staring at me, shaking her head.† (source)
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Towards the second evening she reached the irregular chalk table-land or plateau, bosomed with semi-globular tumuli—as if Cybele the Many-breasted were supinely extended there—which stretched between the valley of her birth and the valley of her love.† (source)
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It is a canvas deck chair, mended and faded and sagged so long to the shape of Hightower's body that even when empty it seems to hold still in ghostly embrace the owner's obese shapelessness; approaching, Byron thinks how the mute chair evocative of disuse and supineness and shabby remoteness from the world, is somehow the symbol and the being too of the man himself.† (source)
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But one day, when he had broken down, for the fifth time, in the supines of the third conjugation, and Mr. Stelling, convinced that this must be carelessness, since it transcended the bounds of possible stupidity, had lectured him very seriously, pointing out that if he failed to seize the present golden opportunity of learning supines, he would have to regret it when he became a man,—Tom, more miserable than usual, determined to try his sole resource;† (source)
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"If you have some liniment I'll put it on my dignity," Mrs Whatsit said, still supine.† (source)
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Thus far I had succumbed supinely to this imperious domination.† (source)
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