During treatment, patients lay supine on the treatment couch for around 3 hrs. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Why should a kind of supine submission to everything be expected from their descendants?. From Wordnik.com. [Address by Professor Z. K. Matthews] Reference
It would clearly not do to speak of a "supine" rifle-shot. From Wordnik.com. [Highways and Byways in Surrey] Reference
The last is called a supine and is the source of our to love. From Wordnik.com. [Our Own Primary Grammar for the Use of Beginners.] Reference
Active operations have been begun before Petersburg, where the two armies had long lain supine. From Wordnik.com. [Foreign and Colonial Intelligence] Reference
I don't think, however, that the MSM could in the remotest way be described as supine during GW's second term. From Wordnik.com. [politicalbetting.com] Reference
Yeah, because Democrats have redefined the word "supine". From Wordnik.com. [Poll: More Republicans Than Democrats Approve Of Congress] Reference
She learned, for example, that a description of her as "supine" meant she was laying in a face-up position. From Wordnik.com. [What the Doctor Is Really Thinking] Reference
The government has been accused of acting in a "supine" manner in dealing with Israel. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
Here the patient is placed in the supine position. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
Tuberculosis takes only the quitters and the supine. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
Why do I mind, lying supine digesting your erections?. From Wordnik.com. [In Jest] Reference
And he half threw himself against the supine body of the. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
One may be melancholy by the sea, but never morbid or supine. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
A few steps more and she could see Tony's young, supine figure. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
I was also moved to pity myself, lying supine under his speechless contempt. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914] Reference
All the Malays were asleep, stretched prone or supine under the forward awning. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
You are citizens of no mean city, members of no common state, heirs of no supine empire. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
He lay supine and helpless; and extended full length over him was a fox of portentous size. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
But in a minute she discerned a white figure supine in a large arm-chair -- Mildred, and asleep. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
He was practically supine, staring at the ceiling, arms and legs flailing helplessly like a big bug. From Wordnik.com. [Fasting to a Comfortable Death] Reference
But that was about the closest Clinton came to being the gaggingly supine political creature of legend. From Wordnik.com. [Politics Without Pols] Reference
Obama's "supine diplomacy," Krauthammer thundered, was setting off a chain of catastrophes across the globe. From Wordnik.com. [Why Washington Worries] Reference
Vincart, dozing, in his usual supine attitude, his hands spread out, his eyelids drooping, his mouth half open. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
When Jim had gotten up in the night to relieve himself, he had found her supine amidst a mosaic of glass particles. From Wordnik.com. [After the Badlands] Reference
Quiet in the supine position, and the administration of a small amount of stimulant, was usually all that was required. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
The patient was kept quiet in the supine position for a month, and during this time the condition in many ways improved. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
But that Government acted in the same supine spirit in which our own had acted; and it was left to the ability of Captain. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
Or was it better to continue her supine pretence and quietly allow the needle to reduce her once more to a merciful torpor?. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
The patient was kept at rest in the supine position for three weeks, during which time the tibial pulses gradually returned. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
It was no uncommon sight to see F. A.N.Y.s lying supine across the bonnets of their cars, completely winded by their efforts. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Goes to War] Reference
A supine press is unhealthy in any democracy, but a press that tries to usurp the democratic process is positively dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
Patients with this class of fracture often suffered greatly from painful dyspnoea, and were unable to assume the supine position. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
Remember when the neoconservatives were riding high and Paul Wolfowitz assured a supine Congress that Iraqi oil would pay for it all?. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Scheer: Two Wars Don't Make a Right] Reference
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