How to Use armchair in a Sentence

armchair

1 of 2 noun
  • To shop for more on-sale armchairs, keep scrolling.
    — Rachel Trujillo, PEOPLE, 1 Apr. 2026
  • To shop for more on-sale armchairs, keep scrolling.
    — Rachel Trujillo, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The three of us walked onto the stage and sat down in black leather armchairs.
    — Literary Hub, 29 May 2026
  • Trotsky sat down in his armchair.
    — Josh Ireland, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Sit back in a standard armchair.
    — Sydney Wingfield, Health, 26 Aug. 2025
  • So why not deck it out with a comfy sofa and armchair?
    — Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 22 May 2026
  • Throw it on an armchair, at the foot of your bed, or over that stain on your couch for a chic touch.
    — Andie Kanaras, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Throw it on an armchair, at the foot of your bed, or over that stain on your couch for a chic touch.
    — Staff Author, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • An hour later, the old beige armchair was back in the living room.
    — Michelle Slatalla, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Two boys sit on the floor, and the mother and father are in old armchairs.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Wash blankets and throws that have been draped over armchairs all winter.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2026
  • But don’t take my armchair analysis for it.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Some of them, like the now-famous armchairs, still bring a smile to Amy's face.
    — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 25 Dec. 2025
  • For contrast, there's a dark wood desk, deep brown armchair and black lantern-style pendant.
    — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Someone put me in a room with an armchair between two speakers.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
  • People leaped up from black velvet chaises and armchairs to join the fun.
    — Keyaira Boone, Essence, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Or maybe a three-seater sofa with the ottoman attached to the armchair?
    — Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Like everybody can relate to armchair or front door, that sort of thing.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Make a point to avoid recliner-style armchairs in the living room, too.
    — Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Make a point to avoid recliner-style armchairs in the living room, too.
    — Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 25 Aug. 2025
  • And, of course, no couch or armchair is complete without a warm blanket.
    — Ali Faccenda, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Add a fluffy heart pillow almost anywhere — your bed, couch, bench, armchair.
    — Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Use this on a white couch or armchair or anywhere with an absence of color and pattern.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 10 Feb. 2026
  • There’s one armchair, one armoire, one pair of ballet pointe shoes, and 37 desk lamps.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Luca meanwhile can be seen sitting in an armchair with a video game controller.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Five steps up, the welcome area on the main deck is equipped with a large sofa, armchairs, and an outdoor bar.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2025
  • This armchair brings a distinctive look to any room, thanks to its solid wood frame, sharp lines, and wide seat.
    — Jacqueline Tempera, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Cronkite is seated in an armchair, while Epstein and the other man are on a couch.
    — CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025
  • There’s always going to be the skeptics and the purists and the armchair critics.
    — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The mesh chair has a classic armchair design that’s offered in two colors—black and white.
    — Jamie Weissman, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Apr. 2023

armchair

2 of 2 adjective
  • Maybe Sherman is a lot shrewder than the armchair agents think.
    — Peter King, SI.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Lastly, there is such a thing as armchair travel with this app.
    — Adelaide Chen, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2017
  • That’s the armchair view of somebody who doesn’t run a business.
    — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Thanks to the viral video, armchair donations have spread across the country.
    — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The producers spend months building it up only for armchair critics to knock it down.
    — Mara Reinstein, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2019
  • To say such things is just armchair quarterbacking of the most cynical kind.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 1 Apr. 2020
  • But as even armchair economists know, these developments have been a long time coming.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2018
  • What does all that mean for the armchair Nobel Prize speculator?
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Prior to the tournament, an armchair pundit or two may have labelled them the 'dark horse', or a team who could 'surprise a few'.
    — SI.com, 12 July 2018
  • In the second half of the book, Susan morphs from armchair detective to amateur sleuth.
    — David Martindale, star-telegram.com, 30 May 2017
  • Armchair cooks and armchair travelers who don’t cook at all — or actual travelers looking for where or what to eat away from home.
    — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Some of you become armchair travelers; others will truly travel.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • The group says that a psychic technique called remote viewing allows people to take an armchair visit to other planets.
    — Fox News, 25 Jan. 2012
  • Wildlife officials, for some reason, are not relying on the armchair theories about the wolflike creature.
    — Author: Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2018
  • This unfortunately won't be the first or last time Graham has to deal with armchair critics, but she's learned how to handle them.
    — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 9 Oct. 2017
  • The Washington players were stunned too, having come to an armchair consensus at their restaurant.
    — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • What all those armchair quarterbacks didn’t know at the time was that there was not simply one ethical dilemma evident in this story, but two.
    — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2017
  • What all those armchair quarterbacks didn't know at the time was that there was not simply one ethical dilemma evident in this story – there are two.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2017
  • Dana Walk was a machinist with a wife and three children, an armchair coach for his beloved Green Bay Packers.
    — Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2020
  • As many sites and armchair astrologists will tell you, the Sagittarius is a fire sign who loves adventure and is drawn to those who prefer the same.
    — Mariah Smith, The Cut, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Storytellers, travel writers and artists have been stimulating the senses of armchair tourists for centuries.
    — Adam Minter, chicagotribune.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Taaffe has been among many armchair QBs throughout the country dissecting Bortles in recent weeks.
    — George Diaz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Fret not; even if a picture-perfect getaway isn’t on your schedule, there’s plenty of inspiration and armchair travel to pick up on from the celebrities who do it best.
    — Raisa Bruner, Time, 16 July 2019
  • For the armchair traveler, the one prepping for an upcoming trip, or those just looking to reminisce about a recent vacation, these books will do the trick.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Mar. 2020
  • There is nothing that political pundits and armchair pollsters at home love as much as a flash of emotional drama in the midst of a presidential debate.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 28 June 2019
  • The league also took the opportunity to reprimand armchair doctors.
    — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Tamils don’t have the stomach for another conflict, except armchair militants in the diaspora.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Kennedy invites armchair adventurers to help identify more objects by scouring the area on Google Earth for themselves.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 Oct. 2017
  • There is a sense of entitlement to people’s trauma and a kind of gleeful armchair detective work that doesn’t come with the gravitas of the situation.
    — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Over the last few years, the works of Aristotle and Galileo have come up against armchair astronomers who believe, like really believe, the Earth is flat.
    — Cassandra Santiago and Aj Willingham, CNN, 25 Sep. 2017

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'armchair.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: