How to Use easy chair in a Sentence

easy chair

noun
  • The water turned glass calm, and the bass retired to their easy chairs for the night.
    — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 18 June 2023
  • And now he’s canted back in his brown leather easy chair, a large, white-haired man in a green zip-up sweater.
    — Bill Donahue, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Hany Metwally sat at home for four days with chest pains, too tired to move from his easy chair.
    — Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 23 Apr. 2020
  • My dad stood vigil by my bedside, getting only sporadic sleep in an easy chair.
    — Longreads, 25 May 2021
  • But the mere act of watching games from your couch or easy chair is more complicated than ever.
    — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Whatever the rationale, these movies are well-suited to an easy chair and a glass of scotch.
    — Jesse Hassenger, The Week, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The Derby network telecast brought the comfort of an easy chair.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Nooks and crannies, parlors and bays are scattered throughout, each with sofas and easy chairs.
    — Karl Zimmermann, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Sofas and easy chairs slipcovered in stonewashed linen surround a cozy fireplace.
    — Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2018
  • Mr Baum settled back in an easy chair in the sunshine, and looked in a supremely happy way at his wife and son.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2019
  • Nowak has settled into an easy chair in his cellar each evening and watched nearly all of this week’s convention.
    — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Every hotel stay results in a celebrity death match for who has to turn the easy chair pillows into a nest bed on the floor.
    — NBC News, 21 June 2019
  • The Downtown Gallery was a space with home-sized rooms mixed with books, paintings, sculptures, and easy chairs.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 14 Dec. 2019
  • In the lodge, most of the family played games while Christy sat in a soft easy chair by the fire, beaming at everyone.
    — Robert Kolker, New York Times, 20 July 2023
  • The 53-inch-long lounger comes with armrests, and is designed like a roomy easy chair for maximum comfort.
    — Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 19 May 2022
  • Inside a trippy lounge, an easy chair offers a place for relaxation — and a place where videos of earthy visions can play out on your groin.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Cuddling her infant son in an easy chair, Katie Luckesen cracked open a picture book.
    — Peter Rowe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 May 2018
  • Dozens of people stopped by to see Johnson, who greeted them while sitting in an overstuffed easy chair and wearing a tiara.
    — Andy Marso, kansascity, 7 Apr. 2018
  • No longer are furniture companies content to offer you staples like a sofa, easy chair and bed.
    — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2019
  • In her easy chair, with Lulu calm and resting by her feet, Ballard chuckled as the passages were read aloud to her.
    — Thallman, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Add a sunlit easy chair, crackling fire, blanket, toddler or two, and sleeping cat or dog for cozy homebody happiness.
    — Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Thirty-two hours after the first alarm sounded, McNamee went home and collapsed into an easy chair.
    — Sean Flynn, Esquire, 9 Mar. 2017
  • Here Hawkins, after a few hilarious flails, sinks morosely into an easy chair with a whiskey bottle.
    — Rob Weinert-Kendt, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2022
  • We kids sprawled on the carpet as Mom, Granddad (Ruth’s brother-in-law), and Ruth took to the easy chairs.
    — Sue Wunder, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2020
  • But Jentz keeps the editorializing to a minimum, and her soapbox is, for the most part, more of an easy chair.
    — Tina Jordan, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
  • But Thursday visitors hoping to check out a pop-up Ikea found the circle bereft of couches, easy chairs, end tables and lamps.
    — John Tuohy, Indianapolis Star, 28 Sep. 2017
  • This cozy throw features a subtle animal print design in two color choices that makes the perfect accessory for the back of any couch or easy chair.
    — Jennifer Blair, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Balancing the grand piano and the guitars held aloft in their stands were an orange velvet couch, a side table with a vase of white callas lilies, and an easy chair half covered in a throw.
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2018
  • If the Cowboys are locked into a seed, the majority of starters might as well set up their easy chairs on the sidelines, get their popcorn ready and enjoy the game.
    — David Moore, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Now 96, Williams sat on the edge of his easy chair in this rural community outside Charleston one day last month and told of his part in the battle.
    — Michael E. Ruane, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Feb. 2020

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