How to Use in repose in a Sentence

in repose

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  • Near one end of the garages, a quartet of fire-engine-red quadrupeds crouched in repose.
    David Montgomery, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Ginsburg will lie in repose in front of the court again Thursday.
    Paul Cobler, Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Logo points out an ostrich in mating position and a leopard in repose.
    Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Tuesday marked the end of nearly two and a half days of the former president lying in repose at the center.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
  • In the past, justices have lain in repose in the Supreme Court’s Great Hall for only one day.
    Annie Karni, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2020
  • My favorite film acting is acting in repose, acting in reflection.
    Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • In it, a dark copper statue sits—its face obscured by the hood of an ankle-length cloak, like a grim reaper in repose—amid barren branches in the snow.
    Rebecca Panovka, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Ginsburg will lie in repose at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, a court spokeswoman said Monday.
    Susan Ferrechio, Washington Examiner, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Ginsburg has been lying in repose at the Supreme Court, where members of the public were invited to pay their respects.
    CBS News, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The last justice who lay in repose at the court was Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second female justice.
    CBS News, 18 Dec. 2023
  • In the back of the small showroom, a blue dual-motor R1T pickup sat parked with a mountain bike atop the roof rack, its headlights glowing in repose.
    Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2024
  • The former president had been lying in repose at the center since Saturday, allowing the public to come pay their respects.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The large scale canvas features a woman on an interior chaise lounge in repose and with glittering rhinestone accents that make the oil and acrylic pastiche glitter and glimmer.
    Amy Carleton, Charlotte Observer, 29 Feb. 2024
  • As if potting up channels on a studio mixing board, the sounds blended into a symphony that soon blossomed into a sonic fullness, the soundtrack of a river in repose.
    Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2023
  • For Moore's cameo, the actress was filmed in repose on a leather couch opposite model Bella Hadid, who was also decked out in sultry, black underwear.
    Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Carter had been lying in repose in Atlanta, as part of six days of observances that began Saturday with a service at his boyhood home in Plains, Georgia.
    Caroline Linton, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Nakamura, who works almost exclusively in his native Japan, smooths over those divisions, creating reverent, porous structures that open to the landscape or curl in on themselves in repose.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 1 Apr. 2026
  • After the short ceremony, his body will lie in repose at the Carter Center, a nonprofit created by Carter located next to his presidential library.
    Kim Jarrett | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Ginsburg, who died on Friday at the age of 87 due to complications from cancer, will lie in repose under the portico at the top of the front steps to allow for public viewing outdoors on Wednesday and Thursday.
    Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Taken by Hujar in 1985, the black-and-white image shows Jackie in repose, dressed in a suit, with a fresh white flower in his buttonhole and a lovely drawing of him, in full makeup, positioned near his left shoulder.
    Hilton Als, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
  • In scenes that find the Höss family in repose on the banks of the Sola, sound creates a canopy of futile escapism — the woodpeckers echoing the machine guns, the turtledoves grieving in the trees, the unceasing wails of Hedwig’s baby Annagret.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024

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