How to Use chaise longue in a Sentence

chaise longue

noun
  • Plough in won every time, whether on a velvet chaise longue or a pile of horse blankets.
    — The Economist, 6 July 2019
  • This clever patio decor idea is a corner bench featuring a chaise longue.
    — Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Apr. 2023
  • For a nursery project with lots of space, Risdon purchased a chaise longue.
    — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Our bright and airy ocean-view room overlooked a rooftop patio with chaise longues, a wading pool and fire pit.
    — Dorothy O'Donnell, latimes.com, 5 July 2018
  • Lisa finds the chaise longue said to be made from mother jaguar beneath the trapdoor in her bedroom.
    — Shannon Carlin, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Some sofas will have a chaise longue on one end, which means the couch extends on that side, so there’s more room to stretch out.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The gurney that rolls out of the ambulance makes for an excellent chaise longue.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • The indoor-outdoor pool, the chaise longues, the endless reservoirs of water.
    — Devin Friedman, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Find a couch or a chaise longue or a recliner, please, and give Ron’s sheer desperation a watch.
    — Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • One victim, Andrew Borden, is shown sprawled at an awkward angle on a chaise longue.
    — Lindsey Fitzharris, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Details like a vintage chandelier in a hotel bathroom or an antique chaise longue can make a hotel room or your own home feel unique.
    — Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • This included a roll-top desk, floor lamps, tables, a chaise longue, full sized cupboards, bed frames, and even a radio cabinet.
    — Helaine Fendelman and Joe Rosson, Star Tribune, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Its Chester Line includes a number of elements, from a corner sofa to a chaise longue.
    — Catherine Romano, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Neither has the viewing Pods or chaise longues yet; those have only been rolled out in New York and Houston.
    — Connie Ogle, miamiherald, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Wiley finally settled down next to Taiwo and his old friend Scott Andresen on a chaise longue by the pool.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
  • The sofa, rug, and yellow-travertine screen are custom; LC4 chaise longue is from Cassina.
    — Ian Phillips, ELLE Decor, 1 June 2022
  • Instead of two small sofas facing one another (such as in the traditional layout), situate two chairs across from a chaise longue.
    — Kelsey Kloss, ELLE Decor, 20 June 2016
  • The screening room holds chaise longues with cushions in subtly alternating shades of muted beige to suggest the varying hues and shapes of sandcastles.
    — Nancy Hass, ELLE Decor, 16 Sep. 2019
  • To his left, Jay Kriegel, a young assistant, sat on a chaise longue with his shoes off, looking intently at simulations of what was to come.
    — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 25 May 2018
  • Bay windows are now cozy alcoves to cocoon in, with a chaise longue deliberately placed to admire the Bay of Cannes from all angles.
    — Chrissie McClatchie, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2023
  • Meanwhile, the primary bath—swathed in a series of bucolic de Gournay panels—acts as an exquisite stage for a tub and a regal chaise longue.
    — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 16 June 2023
  • Pull up a chaise longue on Kauna'oa Beach, play a few rounds of golf, or grab a bite at one of the hotel’s three restaurants, plus a weekly clambake and twice-weekly luau.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 May 2026
  • The edgy mix of ancient and avant garde continues in the rooms, too, with oak parquet floors, Artimide lamps, chaise longues and sofas, and, in some, statement type works of modern art.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The 365 classic rooms and eleven suites favor soft yellow walls, botanical prints, chaise longues, and humongous beds in maize, periwinkle or coral.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The edgy mix of ancient and avant-garde continues in the rooms, too, with oak parquet floors, Artimide lamps, chaise longues and sofas, and, in some, statement type works of modern art.
    — Alice Newell-Hanson, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Mar. 2018
  • In warm weather, on our deck overlooking a riffling creek in the nearby Appalachian Mountains, the bird feeders busy and the cushy chaise longue placed just so.
    — New York Times, 11 Aug. 2022
  • These women, usually sitting or lying, provide the base for each chaise longue’s form—turning the image of an odalisque into the furniture itself.
    — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 30 Nov. 2022
  • There’s a glamorous chaise longue smack in the middle of Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos’s bathroom.
    — Catherine Hong, Architectural Digest, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Moss-colored chaise longues in the living area, piled with pillows and wool blankets, are perfectly positioned to take in the view, as are the four-poster beds with wool-blend mattresses and willowy gauzy curtains.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Parked along a healthy stretch of the Kalo Livadi beach, the beach club, which includes a restaurant, a bar and a football field’s worth of sand, is a serene sprawl of wood decks, lush canopies and overstuffed chaise longues.
    — New York Times, 26 June 2018

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