How to Use repose in a Sentence

repose

1 of 2 noun
  • The dense stand of young trees at the back of my lot offers no such repose.
    — Bill Finch, al, 20 July 2023
  • This of all movements needs a few seconds of repose at the end.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, 16 Jan. 2026
  • An old woman summoned from the repose of her mirror by the chants of children.
    — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 13 June 2023
  • Let’s hope that Norman found a few such moments of repose toward the end.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2019
  • This meant the actress playing the role would spend much of the film in various states of repose.
    — Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Young men awaiting haircuts and makeup were draped across couches in stages of repose.
    — Ben Detrick, New York Times, 29 June 2018
  • Frosted-glass sconces on the walls bear bas-relief nudes in classical repose.
    — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
  • At first, the shot looks like a candid, slyly captured moment of a performer in repose.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Three of her life-size headless figures on plinths, sited on smaller lawns around the park, will play off just such a woman in repose.
    — Hilarie M. Sheets, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Unable to find a moment of repose, the performance always seemed slightly out of breath.
    — Marcus Overton, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 May 2018
  • Women, some of them nude, some of them clothed in flowing garments, lie in repose within the canvasses.
    — Brienne Walsh, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Craving something savory with the repose of an indica strain?
    — Martine Thompson, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Lori asked the faithful to pray for the repose of the soul of the former pope, who was the first to resign in 600 years.
    — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Get there early to scope out the perfect place for repose on the soft sand (a rarity among the country’s rocky beaches).
    — Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2023
  • For the dead headed to eternal repose at Brookwood, the process was fairly simple.
    — National Geographic, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Longtime residents of Woodlawn should have a right to seek repose under their own vines, too.
    — David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
  • The free-surfing equivalent is the soul arch—a casual, stylish moment of repose.
    — Jamie Brisick, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Members of the public had a chance to pay their respects on Friday, when Bush lay in repose at the church.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Cycle through the spa’s saunas, steams, hot pools, and cold plunges, then retire to a breezy hammock or calming cabin for idyllic repose.
    — Lisa Kadane, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2025
  • At this time our prayers are for the repose of the soul of our resident Pauline Ballon and with her family.
    — Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com, 19 July 2017
  • Raphael surely saw the Pantheon as prime real estate for his eternal repose, but this wasn’t simply his ego at work.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 Sep. 2020
  • But no such repose is in the cards for Claudia Rankine, who wrote the play these actors are rehearsing.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 6 Mar. 2020
  • For Michelle and Jenner, the choice of minimalism has become a repose.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Even as his knee was pressed into a man’s neck, cutting off his oxygen, Chauvin assumed the posture of someone in repose.
    — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The heart of this piece is its arrival at a few bars of repose near the end of the last movement, a moment of bittersweet, heart-stopping suspension.
    — Marcus Overton, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Apr. 2018
  • True to the hotel’s philosophy of repose and rest, the basket invites you to linger longer in your rooms, with enough to keep munching on through the morning.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The already dirge-like film downshifts further, towards a more pleasant state of repose, as Robin convalesces.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 11 June 2026
  • The slow opening movement, the upbeat and lively second and third movements, and then the sinking into an adagio, a slow repose.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
  • To eat out in Moscow is to begin to understand the city's social order and get a close-up view of its various clans in repose.
    — Alex Halberstadt, Town & Country, 9 Oct. 2015
  • If the player so chooses, Edward can sit in quiet repose at different places in the village and sketch the landmarks around him.
    — Washington Post, 6 June 2019

repose

2 of 2 verb
  • Water can be used to dampen and repose the body and paint can be removed or retouched.
    — Jessie Schiewe, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2025
  • An orangutan swings through while her baby reposes on a branch nearby.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • At that moment, the camera reached the last plate, upon which reposed Bunky.
    — Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023
  • Today, when people repose by themselves in bed at night, a buzz of friends and strangers emanates from their screens.
    — Nika Mavrody, The Atlantic, 19 May 2017
  • Answers repose at the end of thiscolumn.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The hollow of her long neck fluttered with each intake of breath, like a butterfly reposing on a blossom.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Explore the many natural beauties of the state that repose in its parks, beaches and mountains.
    — WSJ, 13 Apr. 2021
  • And that is why 125 crore countrymen have been able to repose faith in our governance.
    — Time Staff, Time, 15 Aug. 2017
  • The hour had come to repose the Blessed Sacrament, to move it from exposition to rest.
    — New York Times, 26 June 2021
  • The whole place is a homage to repose and tranquility—like a retreat, but for people who also love a good cocktail at lunchtime.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Finally, in Bill’s magic package reposed a miniature three-legged stool inside a clear jar with a white lid.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Art installations and reflection ponds encourage this kind of repose too.
    — Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 19 July 2025
  • Breathtaking wide-angle shots of the sky and beach offer the same sense of freedom and repose that characterizes the easygoing tune.
    — Bryan Kress, Billboard, 17 Jan. 2020
  • In a second photograph, the singer can be seen reposing nonchalantly in a bed, wearing the same jumpsuit and covered in part by white bedsheets.
    — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 23 June 2017
  • The artist, whose portraits explore leisure and repose, has suddenly found success in the notoriously fickle gallery world.
    — M.h. Miller, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
  • His body will repose at the foundation’s headquarters in Rome on Wednesday and Thursday.
    — Jenny Barchfield, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026
  • This influence is evident in the way the leads’ full frontal nudity, specifically, is shown in moments of quiet and repose.
    — Eleanor Stanford, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The questions are sometimes amalgams of several highly similar questions posed or reposed during the course of a discussion on one topic.
    — Chris Wilson, Time, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Ojih Odutola's ability to capture movement and repose felt symbolic.
    — Osayi Endolyn, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 May 2020
  • Think of it, there are a hundred and forty-seven great works reposing in the bosoms of a hundred and forty-seven great men, and the tragic thing is that not one of those hundred and forty-seven great works will ever be written.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Although, based on their various states of repose around a woodstove, our six English setters and two Labradors give the impression that a day off is not too much of an imposition.
    — Christine Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Nov. 2021
  • Xiao long bao were another animal altogether, thin-skinned purses gently swollen with light broth, the amniotic potion in which a small, seasoned serving of meat reposed.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 5 July 2019
  • Lennox perfectly approximates Franklin’s confidence and repose on the cover of her latest album, Vacancy.
    — Kory Grow, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Lennox perfectly approximates Franklin’s confidence and repose on the cover of her latest album, Vacancy.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2026
  • Bill gravitates towards Tammy (Levy), his daughter-in-law and the only other person in his rambunctious household who values contemplation and repose.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 16 July 2025
  • Preparing the next generation While her generation has been hard at work in saving and restoring forests, Bisoyi has reposed faith in the next generation to not only take up the mantle but improve on it.
    — Pragati Prava, Quartz India, 26 Jan. 2020
  • Bill gravitates towards Tammy (Jane Levy), his daughter-in-law and the only other person in his rambunctious household who values contemplation and repose.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Oscar Wilde, for example, reposes beneath a hulking deity whose iconoclastic castration, back in 1961, did little to restrain pilgrims seeking to smear red lips across his stony physique.
    — Emily Cox, ARTnews.com, 22 May 2026
  • Harboring doubts about David’s discipline and commitment, Bill gravitates towards Tammy his daughter-in-law Tammy, the only other person in his rambunctious household who values contemplation and repose.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 16 July 2025
  • Ashley Luxe Calden Boucle 5-Piece Modular Sectional The sofa purchase to end all sofa purchases, this is the exact sectional Steinfeld reposed on (and destroyed) in her playful Ashley campaign ads.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019

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