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"Posture" in a Sentence (25 examples)
He likes to posture as an intellectual.
The guard's truncheon hit air. Off balance, he regained his posture to see a metal-mesh rubbish bin flying towards him.
A lot of back problems can be attributed to poor sitting posture.
Poor posture can cause many problems.
Proper posture is necessary to maintain good health.
I have good posture.
Yoga can improve your posture.
Tom has good posture.
The matted and dishevelled locks of hair which escaped from under his hat, together with his fixed and unmoved posture, made his head more resemble that of a marble bust than that of a living man.
If you keep using that posture, you'll become a hunchback.
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As if that whatsoever god who leads him Were slily crept into his human powers, And gave him graceful posture.
[…] walking in a most dejected posture, without a band, unbraced, his arms a-cross his open breast, and his eyes bent to the floor;
Rise, sir, from this semi-recumbent posture. It is most indecorous.
Even as I was reading these fables of my millions, there lay on the desk before me a statement of the exact posture of my affairs […]
Uncle Jim stopped amazed. His brain did not instantly rise to the new posture of things.
1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan ...that is, their Forts, Garrisons, and Guns upon the Frontiers of their Kingdomes; and continuall Spyes upon their neighbours; which is a posture of War.
1912, G.K. Chesterton, A Miscellany of Men But it is not true, no sane person can call it true, that man as a whole in his general attitude towards the world, in his posture towards death or green fields, towards the weather or the baby, will be wise to cultivate dissatisfaction.
1661, Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World The Moon beheld in any posture, in respect of the Sun and us, sheweth us its superficies ... always equally clear.
As for the guides, they were debarred from the pleasure of discourse, the one being placed in the van, and the other obliged to bring up the rear. In this posture they travelled many hours, till they came into a wide and well-beaten road […]
If you're finished posturing in front of the mirror, can I use the bathroom now?
The politicians couldn't really care less about the issue: they're just posturing for the media.
But these plays allow us to look beyond the posturing, punditry and angry speechifying, to really feel the painful, inescapable hardships of daily life as it is lived by increasing numbers of Americans.
Belarusian officials continue to posture military strength amid the ongoing Ukrainian incursion into Kursk Oblast, Russia.
to posture oneself; to posture a model
As pointed Diamonds being set, Cast greater lustre out of Jet, Those peeces we esteem most rare, Which in night shadows postur'd are.
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