Recline in a sentence as a verb

I'll grab a couch at work and recline and close my eyes.

I've actually been known to press my legs against the seat in front of me so that they can't recline.

If you bought a ticket for a reclining seat then you should be able to recline your seat.

Even if someone reclines, I felt like I wasn't being invaded by the person's seat.

Your parent has an excellent point about not needing to recline PSDs.

You simply look for the seats right behind the Economy Plus seats that don't recline, and buy them.

The seats don't recline, no in flight entertainment at all, no food, and you have to ask forthe in-flight magazine.

However there seems to be a persistent belief that nobody should be allowed to recline but you.

Choose a different airline, take your chances that someone reclines in their seat, sit in the front row, check in earlier or pay more money.

Likewise, I will plan the use of the area behind the seat in front of me with the assumption that they may recline their seat at any time it's allowed.

The reclinee then chooses between reclined seat and space for knees, and the person behind doesn't need to care: The dark plastic part below the table never reclines.

How is expecting to be able to recline your seat on a flight when you chose a seat that does recline, remotely comparable to your example?

Its not like it makes much of a difference, they only recline like 3 inches anyway, but that's 3 inches less the guy behind you has to cram his knees into that tiny space.

You still don't have the right to force them to not recline and calling them "indignant" shows the same kind of attitude, albeit a lesser scale, that caused the Newerk-Denver incident.

'How to apply [rule #1] to your own life: Ignore "suggested donation" pleas at museums, always help yourself to more food and drinks at dinner parties and recline your seat all the way back when flying.

Clearly the solution to squabbles among an infinitesimal percentage of passengers is to disable the recline button on all airline seats.

In this dream, I am seated in a comfortable recline at the computer station while thundering trance emanates from the sound system and is parabolically focused upon my exact location.

The real problem, then, is that the airline seems to be selling the right to sit with unsquashed knees and the right to recline your seat into someone else's knees, and since it rarely comes to an argument, they can get away with double-dipping.

It had nothing to do with smugness and everything to do with a seat that isn't painfully small, enough legroom to avoid being horribly cramped, ability to recline more than five degrees, and food that didn't make me want to vomit in terror.

Recline definitions

verb

move the upper body backwards and down

verb

cause to recline; "She reclined her head on the pillow"

verb

lean in a comfortable resting position; "He was reposing on the couch"

See also: recumb repose