How To Use High-backed In A Sentence
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A very old man, shrunken and faded, a waxen wraith of his former self, was sitting in a high-backed armchair by the fireplace.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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The man leaning against the high-backed chair was darkly handsome and Cassidy wondered if he was the infamous Ian Royale.
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Nangi limped toward the high-backed chairs and, as he came round the side, saw that the one nearest him was occupied by a petite but noble-looking woman with pale, translucent skin, planular cheekbones and black, fiery almond eyes.
The Kaisho
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We stood before the Lord in the high-backed chair, and I saw that the wood figures of his regal throne were, of course, animalian, feline and diabolical.
Vittorio, The Vampire
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Reacher stood outside next to me and handed me the shoulder straps and radio cord from behind the high-backed seat.
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Rachel pictured Cadmus the way he'd been at the wedding; sitting in his high-backed chair dispensing charm like a benediction.
GALILEE
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Wearing simple habits of black tunics, hooded scapulars, and long-sleeved cuculas or robes, the monks walk reverently through a glass-lined hallway - called a slype - that connects the monastery and the church, then bow before the altar, and take their places in high-backed choir stalls where they pray, sing, chant, and recite the liturgy.
Sunday Reading
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Rachel pictured Cadmus the way he'd been at the wedding; sitting in his high-backed chair dispensing charm like a benediction.
GALILEE
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Sammy sat glumly in the comfy, high-backed chair in her room.
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An array of leather high-backed chairs and two large settees would certainly make visitors welcome.
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‘The third party was a mandarin at the Foreign Office,’ Mr Lee recalled, sitting in a high-backed armchair in his flat off Bootham.
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There, on the great high-backed oak chair, sat the same enormous rat.
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The high-backed, luxuriously upholstered seat of brown leather gave her a sense of great comfort; yet even greater, it seemed to her, was the nearness and comfort of the man himself and of his body.
CHAPTER XIX
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Thus adjured, clinging to the shreds of her modesty because she was simply unable to help herself, Beth retired behind the one high-backed chair and, using it as a makeshift screen, exchanged the quilt for the fresh chemise and petticoat that had been laid out for her, then slipped into her stays.
Shameless
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Tetra smiled, and they took seats in a couple of high-backed armchairs in front of the fireplace, which was currently flameless.
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a high-backed sofa
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Inside, he found the same scuffed flagstones on the floor, the inglenook fireplace and the high-backed wooden pews, blackened by the wood smoke of so many winter nights.
Day of the Dandelion
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She sat in the dining room, enthroned on an old high-backed chair.
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Here and there were high-backed signorial chairs, thrones, and stools.
Là-bas
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These include ray-finned fish subclass Actinopterygii, "new-finned" fish Neopterygii, Messel garfish Atractosteus strausi, Messel bowfin Cyclurus ( 'Amia') kehreri, Archaic knife-fish Thaumaturus intermedius, Messel eel Anguilla ignota, high-backed predatory Messel perch Amphiperca multiformes, and double-finned Messel perch Palaeoperca proxima.
Messel Pit fossil site, Germany
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His high-backed desk chair was facing away from him.
