Adjectives for Posture | Words to describe Posture
Half-Sitting
Pensive
Holy
Sitting
Crooked
Restful
Stooping
Crouching
Comfortable
Dreamy
Easy
Upright
Horizontal
Whole
Outward
Half-Reclining
How do you describe Posture?
- 1. The girl stands in a pensive posture, her hands demurely clasped in front, her head poised a little on one side. 🔊
- 2. Hold in each hand a pail of water or equal weights, in a stooping posture, as long as it can be done without much suffering and injury. 🔊
- 3. She rose to a sitting posture, put her feet out of bed, took the child, and carried him with her into the sitting-room. 🔊
- 4. Tessa Remington slipped down on the deck into a sitting posture beside him, and placed her soft, warm hand on his forehead. 🔊
- 5. Some sit in a strange dreamy posture with folded arms, some seem expectant, others are in attitudes of fear, hope, defiance, and despair. 🔊
- 6. The challenge to all thinking people is to resist the temptation to fall into yet another polarised, nationalist, or God-forbid, holy posture. 🔊
- 7. Not far from him, in a half-reclining posture, was a general of the Afghans, also of the bodyguard of the Emperor. 🔊
- 8. To give this suggestion of motion to a seated figure is even more remarkable than in the case of one standing, for the sitting posture naturally has an effect of stability. 🔊
- 9. He gathered himself into a sitting posture and counted his money; he had spent thirty shillings, and at that rate his money would not hold out till the end of the month. 🔊
- 10. But if religion is a matter of sentiment as well as of outward posture, these acts of worship cannot all be equally entitled to the name, and something is wanted to complete our definition. 🔊
- 11. An islander, armed with a club, was seen in a crouching posture cautiously following him, as if watching for an opportunity to spring forward upon his victim. 🔊
- 12. Being properly secured in a horizontal posture, an external incision was made on the inside of the sterno-mastoid muscle, and a cautious dissection practised until the tumour was completely exposed. 🔊
- 13. The governor re-arranged his pillow, and was settling himself into a comfortable position to finish his nap, when an exclamation from Xury brought him to a sitting posture. 🔊
- 14. Immediately the two lines crouched on their haunches, and, in half-sitting posture, with feet side by side, each girl bounced toward her opponent endeavoring to catch her ankle. 🔊
- 15. Nugent essayed to rise, unsteadily, to his feet, but Legros shot out a brown hand on to his shoulder, and firmly pressed him back into a sitting posture. 🔊
- 16. If, for the sake of change during a long rehearsal, the boys sit, let it be remembered that there are many ways of sitting, and that the upright posture hinders the breath less than lolling and a crooked posture. 🔊
- 17. If, for the sake of change during a long rehearsal, the boys sit, let it be remembered that there are many ways of sitting, and that the upright posture hinders the breath less than lolling and a crooked posture. 🔊
- 18. The next morning, one of the members of our meeting, as he was going to the house of God, observed him in a pensive posture, and asked him if he would go with him and hear a sermon upon the old serpent. 🔊
- 19. Mrs. Dane had sunk down in a sitting posture on the step, and her head rested against the shattered edge of the dashboard, her face tilted skyward, where two stars blinked feebly through thinning snow flakes. 🔊
- 20. She collected all her strength and rose to a sitting posture, in order to bow graciously to Monsieur Bianchon, and beg him to accept something else than money for the good news he gave her. 🔊
- 21. X Slowly as a partly paralysed crab, Smith raised himself to a sitting posture and looked over his shoulder into the loveliest face that he had ever beheld, except on the paper wrappers of his own books. 🔊
- 22. Lay the patient in an easy posture, the head rather low than high, and where cool air may blow across the face; loosen the dress if tight; sprinkle cold water on the face and hands. 33. 🔊
