Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: armchair
IPA transcription: ['ɑɹmtʃ,ɛɹ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: armchair
    Meaning: chair with a support on each side for arms
Usage examples
  • She dropped as if exhausted into her armchair.
  • He quickly moved an armchair toward Princess Mary.
  • "I'll drink it from the saucer." Old Grannis had drawn up his armchair for her.
  • "Sit down--sit down, Beaufort: push up the yellow armchair; now I've got you I want a good gossip.
  • There was old Bick cursing for all he was worth, and a little red-faced buffer puffing out his cheeks in an armchair.'
  • When Dora was ready, she sat down in the little armchair that stood near a table piled with books, and looked about her contentedly.
  • Princess Mary on the other hand instead of going away sank into an armchair, and looked sternly and intently at him with her deep, radiant eyes.
  • He propped her up in an armchair with some cushions, and they took tea together, she very delicately drinking from a saucer and taking bread and butter from his hands.
  • The squire had had everything repaired, and the public rooms and the sign repainted, and had added some furniture--above all a beautiful armchair for mother in the bar.
  • Mr. Ketch seized the knocker on the shop-door--there was no other entrance to the house--and brought it down with a force that shook the first-floor sitting-room, and startled Mr. Harper, the lay clerk, almost out of his armchair, as he sat before the fire.