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lying down face upward
- When his coughing spell was over and he saw his daughter stretched out supine on the moonlit ground, Dufarge put two and two together.4 — The Laughing Man (69% in)
- When it became quite unendurable to listen to from a supine position, I got out of bed, put on my slippers, and went over in the dark and sat down on one of the floor cushions.8 — De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period (32% in)
- He was lying supine, in just the trousers of his pajamas, a lighted cigarette in his right hand.9 — Teddy (1% in)
There are no more uses of "supine" in Nine Stories.
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