: a folding chair often having an adjustable leg rest
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As those viewers age, there is no sign they will be replaced by younger ones, meaning that CBS bringing in the 41-year-old Weiss as editor-in-chief may amount to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2025 One Sunday morning in March 1949, a group of nearly 300 people, clutching deck chairs and sleeping bags, lined up to buy new homes in what had, until recently, been a stretch of potato fields in central Long Island.—Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025 And will that move just equal deck chairs on the Titanic?—Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025 Four people, likely the dog's owner and their friends, were filmed laying out on deck chairs in front of the paddling pool, enjoying the show.—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for deck chair
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