How To Use Chair In A Sentence

Jeff, clad in board trunks and a T-shirt, leans back in his chair with the lappie on his, uhhh, lap, and his bare feet up on the desk. Savages
It will also host the handball final and semifinals, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball. Times, Sunday Times
I'm sat in one of those chairs with a little side table to rest your notebook on, arranged in a semicircle in a darkened room.
Upstairs were the bedrooms; mother-and-fathers room the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a washstand, a bureau, a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic. Chapter 1
She slumped down in her chair and tried to absorb this violent, absurd disruption to her well-ordered life. LADY BE GOOD

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is scheduled to testify in front of the House Budget Committee.
A private benefactor endowed the new Chair of Japanese Literature.
They have provided two chairs in a pool of light. Times, Sunday Times
When the Mexican chair of the meeting declared the talks formally closed there were whoops of delight from the African delegates.
They had to make do with kitchen tuffets, orange boxes, a piano stool and a rocking chair borrowed from next door.
They may also be friends of the chairman, so they are reluctant to upset the applecart.
The town council chairman said the grass outside the school was being churned up by tyres.
He spun a chair around and straddled it as he sat down, folding his arms across the wrought iron back.
Arthur spun in his chair, not an ounce of surprise on his face.
Long gone are the days when Chairman Mao was idolised by radicals (and even respected by some mainstream academics) on American university campuses.
To complete the desired effect of Edmund's cuteness, the photographer has put a posy of flowers into his hand, then perched him on a tall rattan chair from which his short legs dangle.
It stated further that “during radiation, patient had an acute left-sided hemiparesis requiring wheelchair at home.” Manifesting Michelangelo
The chairman of the bank believes in the personal touch and always sends a signed letter to each customer.
That includes splashing out on three deckchairs with matching beach huts for the patio. The Sun
I went into the office to find the offender, and saw a worried woman crumpled in a chair in the corner, wearing a look of weariness and doubt.
On an odometer basis, my perambulations around the hearthrug by rocking chair are infinitely more dangerous than an astronaut's wildest rides through space.
Without a wheelchair, she is a virtual prisoner in her own home.
The room was an attic, ten feet square, lighted only by a skylight, its sole furniture a narrow iron bedstead, a chair, and a washhand-stand with one game leg. Down and Out in Paris and London
His offences came to light in January when the club's chairman telephoned him to ask why a £4,000 bill for printing the yearbook had not been paid.
Lying in the plastic chair, he wondered about the rigours of human existence, and about the people he had been. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
Daniel - yeah, now suffering post-wedgy issues - let's just say get them to do a full harness check instead of a "quicky" becuase you an in a chair. oh that sounded rude too Wheelchair indoor rock climbing? Beth pays to get a wedgy.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., who chairs an investigative subcommittee that will hold a hearing on the report today, said the Obama administration should "get on with it and actually debar the worst of the tax cheats from the contractor workforce. GAO report: Tax cheats received billions in stimulus funds
For the use of men they have the "merkin," [FN#410] a heart-shaped article of thin skin stuffed with cotton and slit with an artificial vagina: two tapes at the top and one below lash it to the back of a chair. Arabian nights. English
There was a Malay steward behind each chair, and over in the corner, silent but missing nothing, the squint-faced Jingo; even he had exchanged his loin-cloth for a silver sarong, with hornbill feathers in his hair and decorating the shaft of his sumpitan* (* Blowpipe.) standing handy against the wall. Flashman's Lady
Note: Fees for the standard exhibition booth include those for exhibition space, 2.5-meters-high wainscot, making of lintel, negotiation table, two chairs, 220V mains socket and two spotlights .
The chairman has deputed his voting power to the vice - chairman.
We regret to announce the death of our chairman, Alfred Sidebottom.
I was in a beautiful and cushy room, with maroon painted walls and plush chairs all around.
The chairs were light in construction yet extremely strong.
With these prohibitions should be connected the somewhat unintelligible fact that the most pious Caliphs sat upon thrones (_mimbar_, "president's chair") of clay. Christianity and Islam
Seven CHP deputies, including deputy from Manisa Şahin Mengü, took seats next to defense lawyers, although there were many empty chairs in the gallery. TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News
Throwing himself into one of the office's numerous squashy chairs, Irvine admits to a last - minute attack of the collywobbles.
In his hurry to leave the room, he tripped over a chair.
His travel books have given pleasure to generations of armchair travellers.
The chair is also available with adjustable armrests, a height-adjustable backrest and variable seat depths, whereby the active lumbar support is always in the correct position.
Its curved frame suggests almost a modern reinterpretation of the bentwood chair.
Kenneth Lay, Enron's chairman, has acted as George W. Bush's chief financial supporter and key backer since the latter went into politics.
Begin the meeting on time-or if possible sightly early - this will minimize chair squirming and lessen any build up of tension. Heads up staffers, tips to avoid a Health Care "Town Hell" (Blog for Democracy)
All of the chairs had deep red covers put on them with the exception of the one at the head of the table.
I found myself in a salon with a very well-painted, highly varnished floor; chairs and sofas covered with white draperies, a green porcelain stove, walls hung with pictures in gilt frames, a gilt pendule and other ornaments on the mantelpiece, a large lustre pendent from the centre of the ceiling, mirrors, consoles, muslin curtains, and a handsome centre table completed the inventory of furniture. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
Then, all of a sudden rising from her chair, she went over to the jug of roses, which she had placed on the writing-table, bent over the flowers with a kind of perceptible hesitation. and as suddenly came back to her seat. Maurice Guest
The sound of wooden chair legs screeched against the hardwood floors. Christianity Today
Sitting in the chairs for a shapeup this week are freelance writer Jimi Izrael, syndicated columnist Ruben Navarrette, civil rights attorney and editor Arsalan Iftikhar, and NPR's political editor Ken Rudin. 'Shop Talk': The Political Witchunt For Christine O'Donnell
The agency will also keep an eye on patient charges for services and medical equipment often linked to chronic illnesses, such as hospitalizations, nursing-home care and wheelchairs. Health Plans: New Safeguards
The computers, monitors, keyboards, and other materials were placed on tables, each with a chair.
He also introduced the concept of a stipendiary chairmanship, at one stroke freeing the council from its reliance on semi-retired highflyers from the business community.
Five soldiers were each fined ￡140 for swiping a wheelchair from a disabled tourist.
Both as a pointer to the future and as a spectacle in its own right, the Championships have produced a quality of football that had at least one viewer occasionally leaping from his armchair to applaud the action.
Having to stand upright, dip to serve drinks and perch on the edge of chairs all night is clearly a workout in itself. The Sun
In team sports such as wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball, your classification gives you points. The Sun
To study viral infections, Weitz teamed with postdoctoral fellow Yuriy Mileyko, graduate student Richard Joh and Eberhard Voit, who is a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, the David D. Flanagan Chair Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Biological Systems and director of the new Integrative BioSystems Institute at Georgia Tech. Nearly all previous theoretical studies have claimed that switching between "lysis" and Innovations-report
He became part-time chairman to find a new owner for the debt-ridden club. Times, Sunday Times
they gave the chairman a vote of confidence
The building has been specially designed to provide easy access for people in wheelchairs.
They called for an external deputy chairman to be recruited to the board to ensure there was an independent voice. Times, Sunday Times
Porduct: Dining table, Dining chair, Coffee table, Magazine rack.
An adjoining room is littered with mementos of more recent island history: a rack of antlers, a rusty plow, and an old dentist's chair.
I shuffled my hospital armchair forward, across the BUPA contract carpet. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
It is a tactical target sport played by wheelchair athletes with cerebral palsy and other conditions. Times, Sunday Times
Next to the pretty basic motel where I stayed was a shop selling and renting electric wheelchairs, and there they were in their serried hundreds.
Hanne's physical restriction gives new meaning to the term "armchair detective. Mystery
Samantha went round and was delighted to find it was Danielle's chair - and was undamaged.
In 1918 he chaired a war memorials committee and organized nationwide pyrotechnic displays in celebration of the armistice.
He will stay on as nonexecutive chairman. Times, Sunday Times
Also up for grabs were walking sticks, Zimmer frames, wheelchairs, microwaves, refrigerators and industrial vacuum cleaners.
Many chairs are leftovers from restaurant projects. Times, Sunday Times
She fidgeted in her chair during the 10-minute hearing before Superior Court Judge Elden S Fox.
Foster also designed the office chairs with leather thong seats inspired by Greek vases. Times, Sunday Times
He tends his beloved rose and moves his chair round its curve to watch 44 sunsets a day. Times, Sunday Times
His proposed business was flogging office chairs that healed back ache. Times, Sunday Times
Assemble disassemble tables chairs with care, minimizing damage to equipment walls, including scratches, paint chippings, etc.
Mr Monod was formerly Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux .
Grandfather was already in his place and Anna slid into the chair next to his.
We chose to sit on a comfortable settee rather than on hard chairs or impractical looking stools.
Even her few words of Gaelic at the start of her speech at the state dinner on Wednesday evening – "A Úachtárain agus a chairde" "president and friends", immaculately pronounced – were an unexpected gesture. Irish eyes are smiling: show of respect turns Queen into runaway favourite
She sat down in her chair looking furious and just gave me a sneer and a withering look.
Left, the company's chairman Philippe Varin, right, and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi posed for photographs with a Peugeot 508 during the signing of an agreement in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, Sept. 1. India's Auto Hub, Gujarat
Among the sofas I encounter a perspex case containing a sleek-looking chair.
Desmond scoffed, and then flipping up the tail of his coat, turned to sit down on the chair beside Isabella's.
The two joggers seemed surprised when a motorized wheelchair zipped past them on the downtown Denver sidewalk.
The three of them sat in the wide wicker chairs on the front porch, watching as the sun set.
Those with their backs to the action get swivel chairs and video monitors in the wall so they don't miss out. Times, Sunday Times
Weipe agricultural union chairman Frans Nel said drought was wiping out the financial resources of farmers who lost millions of rand in winter production because of black frost and a plague of mice. ANC Daily News Briefing
The little girl has dystonic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, which means she is confined to a wheelchair and needs 24-hour care.
He lay back in the reclining chair and went to sleep.
He can walk on crutches for short periods, but relies on his wheelchair. Times, Sunday Times
The chairman warned the senator to toe the party line while running for the governor.
My story led to an excited chairwoman phoning me to offer me proof that the story of the wedding at Cana had been mistranslated for years, and that her belief was that the story involved Jesus transforming water into grape juice.
He became deputy chairman of the merged business.
There was two or three chairs, that might have been worth, in their best days, from eightpence to a shilling a – piece; a small deal table, an old corner cupboard with nothing in it, and one of those bedsteads which turn up half way, and leave the bottom legs sticking out for you to knock your head against, or hang your hat upon; no bed, no bedding. Sketches by Boz
The idea grew from a remark made unthinkingly by chairman.
Tanya spun round, her chair falling with a clatter.
This attitude was not taken in earlier years however, as is evident from the following statement made by Committee Chairman Arne Westgren, in a survey over the first 60 years of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry
However, of late I've taken to using a bentwood chair on set, but I am writing my next film so I'll be getting the old chair out again.
I shifted slightly, uncomfortably; the chair was built for different proportions.
The bed was rickety, with a thin knotty mattress; the sand-colored walls were scratched and gouged; in every corner, under everything, were fluffy dust and cigar ashes; on the tilted wash-stand was a nicked and squatty pitcher; the only chair was a grim straight object of spotty varnish; but there was an altogether splendid gilt and rose cuspidor. Main Street
Judges are normally appointed as chairmen of those numerous committees which are concerned with reform of substantive law or legal procedure.
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Most of the nicks, scuffs and gouges that currently mar the work are a result of human carelessness, such as carts and chairs banging into the walls.
The chair has four legs, pedestal or swivel base with castors.
Ethan Hawke rubbed the scruff on his chin and leaned forward in his chair for emphasis.
You set it down on your desk and sit in your office chair. Christianity Today
He yawned, leaning back in his chair and rumpling his hair.
The chairman felt that it was his place to intervene in the disagreement between two of his committee members.
After all, failure to do so could leave them as hapless bystanders in a game of musical chairs which may be nearing its climax.
I. Elect and appoint the chairman or members of the presidium of inaugural meeting.
My eyelids flickered open and revealed Jack on a chair next to my bed.
She is married to a company chairman.
The child who is peeking around the corner of the chair is a little girl.
Several key buildings in Waterford, including churches, are still not recognising the needs of disabled people because they're not wheelchair accessible.
It houses not only a flat-screen television, DVD player, reclining leather armchair, capacious bookshelves and an L-shaped execu-desk, but also a loo and what an estate agent might call a bijou kitchenette. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
The chairman will address the shareholders on the proposed demerger.
He proposed a motion that the chairman resign.
The chairman called the meeting to order.
In both the 1901 and the 1888 works, the sunflowers are displayed on the seat of a chair, as if they had the status of a human sitting for a portrait.
Two disciplinary hearings, chaired by an outside moderator, were held yesterday and the others are due to be completed soon.
The way he drops off his chair on to one knee as he is talking does not suggest relaxation. Times, Sunday Times
Alexandra has cerebral palsy, is confined to a wheelchair and suffers from frequent epileptic fits.
The funds will be used to develop the area at the back of the community hall into a recreational area incorporating ramps for wheelchair users.
Star Trek didn't just offer the illimitable joys of William Shatner tumbling out of his chair every time the camera shook, or yet another sermon from the pen of Gene Roddenberry about how organized religion is a childish superstition.
The chairman disallowed the veracity of his report.
The furniture was sparse—a dresser with delft, a rough kitchen table with chairs, the armchair she sat in, and the rocking chair in which Mrs. Prendergast rocked, a black-and-white cat purring companionably on her lap. Winter Bloom
He lay back in the reclining chair and went to sleep.
David Sumner, chairman of the Worthing Society, said Pinter wrote one of his bestknown plays, The Homecoming, while in Worthing. Pinter honoured with plaque (UK)
The swivel armchair is douBly comfortaBle to sit in.
At 39 she was made chairman of the board.
The Chairman of the airline accepted full responsibility for the accident.
It was founded by its two co-chairmen, Michael Hibberd and Shen Songning in 2007 and has raised a total of C$451 million so far through private equity sales and private placements. Sunshine Oilsands Postpones Hong Kong IPO
The party chairman accused the opposition of dirty tricks in their election campaign.
There are some fine tapas dishes and a wide choice of tasty Cuban rums and we recommend you lie back on antique couches and chairs and sample the menu.
The lamp's dim yellow light showed him to be seated, or rather slumped, in his big armchair.
To many people, John XXIII was the Kennedy pope, and Vatican II was his Camelot a glorious, Roman Catholic version of the New Deal and the New Frontier that would move Catholicism from the medieval past into a rosy future of social equality, in which mass would be celebrated in the vernacular, nuns' habits would be modernized, and the popemobile would replace the traditional gestatorial chair as a form of papal transportation. Philocrites: May 2005 Archives
The chairman expressed the opinion that job losses were inevitable.
It was this interaction with former Chairwoman Mankiller, as well as the support of family and friends, that got me through these difficult times. Greatest Person Of The Day: Dr. Patricia Nez Henderson, Native American Health Advocate
There should be a proper waiting room, with chairs, magazines to read and cloakroom facilities easily accessible.
They had the same mixture of comfortable sofas and chairs and slightly more serious upright chairs and tables.
He's got this really comfy grey ergonomic chair with a nice footrest and good back support.
The aim of the scheme is to return the cathedral to how it was hundreds of years ago and the application is for a two-storey hostry extension to provide an entrance hall, education room, community room, song school, music library, vestries, chair store and toilets. Norwich Cathedral
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He spent 33 years as a parish councillor, 24 of them as parish council chairman.
He took off his coat and draped it over a chair.
Connel placed the spool of tape in the audiograph and settled in a chair to listen. Danger in Deep Space
Looms, beds, tables, chairs, stools and benches were made of wood as well.
I've spilt some coffee on the seat of the armchair.
Felicity Maxwell had left Lorelei's cigarettes and matches on a little table by the left arm of Lorelei 's chair. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
Furniture includes chairs and couches upholstered in amber, magenta, and burgundy.
Oh, and I am a chairborne ranger, and as my husband likes to say ‘secretary’.
If he were a teacher, and not a senior White House adviser and the towering former chairman of the Federal Reserve, he says, he would have given the new rules just an ordinary B -- not even a B-plus. Paul Volcker Gives Financial Reform Bill 'B Minus,' Regrets Past Silence On Deregulation
Daddy pulled out Mildred's chair and the maitre d ' pulled out mine. WEB OF DREAMS
Am I too old for... deckchair stripes? Times, Sunday Times
There was a concrete floor and wobbly chairs.
He was subsequently reinstalled as the chairman.
The ‘get up and go test’ measures mobility and involves timed standing from an armless chair, walking fast for 10 yards, returning, and sitting down.
Spen was in particularly frisky mood and ended up slopping his drink down my jeans while Ross lined me up far too many vodkas on the arm of a chair.
As a wheelchair user, in some places you just get stared at. Times, Sunday Times
They tied him to a chair with cable.
The chairman told a news conference that some members of staff would lose their jobs.
She had, however, genteel lodgings, a spinnet on which she played, and a boy that walked before her chair. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
It's a day where people celebrate by drinking the worst-tasting beer they can find, wearing ratty blue singlet tops with Australian flags as a cape, eating burnt "snags" from the "barbie" and listening to the Triple J Hottest 100 countdown on the radio from the plush confines of a deck chair placed in a kiddie's wading pool. A List For Australia Day
I tried to sink a little bit deeper in my chair, hoping no one would see me.
When I'm tired, I like to relax into a deep armchair.
With his usual skill, the chairman zeroed in on the most delicate subject of our meeting.
Does the hotel have wheelchair access ?
Chairman of the panel told members the scheme would help to pave the way for more efficient uses of fuel in the 21st century.
Last month, Shang Fulin, chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, or CSRC, said that basic preparation for stock-index futures has been completed.
Cromwell's role at Putney was first and foremost as chair and ringmaster.
Finally stirring from his chair, he stood to refold the quilt and drape it over the arm.
They stood side by side for a moment, staring into the torn undersides of the chair, at the cobwebs and the little balls of spider eggs.
The armchair's densely carved scallops and shellwork, rosebuds, floral bouquets, and cartouche-shaped back are loosely based on the rococo style as reinterpreted in French pattern books of the mid-nineteenth century.
Couches, armchairs and tables were scattered about the place.
Then, while sitting in a chair in the lobby, drinking an electrolyte beverage while waiting for Donna to join me after her own health regime, I realized that I felt wonderful -- "attuned" might be the more precise word. Archive 2008-07-27
Made of recycled aluminum, the amorphic chair, called "Memory," squishes into a new shape every time someone sits in it. Recycled Aluminum Chair Changes Shape With Each Sitting
Behind it, when he was in session, George would swing to and fro in his green leather swivel armchair smoking a cigar.
She stood on the chair and set the vase at one corner of the top of the cabinet.
Donors' outright and deferred gifts also have funded 22 new faculty professorships and chairs.
The floors were mosaic, the gleaming walls all intricate inlaid wooden marquetry, the deep upholstered chairs in rich jewel colours. TICKLED PINK
They put their chairs on their desks so that the caretaker could sweep the floor.
Don Fisk of Insight Technologies finishes his term as chairman of the board.
A temporary lift has been installed enabling wheelchair access to one of the wonders of the world.
He acted as chairman of the meeting.
At evening viewings, comfortable cushions and blankets are placed on the lounge chairs.
Leo has Parkinson's disease and is virtually chairbound. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The morrice dancers accordingly set out upon their further progress, dancing and carolling as they went along to the sound of four musicians, who led the joyous band, while Simon Glover drew their coryphaeus into his house, and placed him in a chair by his parlour fire. The Fair Maid of Perth
After such men as Morhof and Thomasius had prepared the way, (148) Frederick William I., himself a clever cameralist, and author of the masterly financial system of Prussia, took the important step of founding, at Halle and Frankfurt on the Oder, special chairs of economy and cameralistic science; which, considering the time, were very ably filled by Gasser and Dithmar. System der volkswirthschaft. English
If, as we forecast on page one, he is confirmed as unpaid chairman, then the company's boss will at least bring some heavyweight experience to the group.
The set of at least eight chairs, two settees, and four stools was originally in Worsborough Hall in Barnsley, West Riding, Yorkshire.
It doubled as a bedroom and a sitting room with its two deep blue chairs inviting one to sink down and meditate by the fire. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
He dropped his cap on a chair, unbuttoned his overcoat, lifting up his chin to unfasten the throat buttons.
We will have to enter into discussions with those feeder leagues after the meeting of chairmen from our league next Thursday.
Tonks's patients are joined by amputees, the shellshocked, the blinded, the wheelchairbound. The Times Literary Supplement
That one was co-chaired by two former senators.
He sank down into a chair in front of the uneaten breakfast I had made for Nicola and suddenly his eyes were wild and despairing. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
He sat down in the chair before his table, which was covered in maps and a bottle of brandy.
In recognition of his outstanding service, Berndt Schultz was made honorary chairman.
It is all white, with maximum workspace and minimum cupboards, and has a built-in breakfast table and matching chairs.

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