How To Use Rocking chair In A Sentence
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They had to make do with kitchen tuffets, orange boxes, a piano stool and a rocking chair borrowed from next door.
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On an odometer basis, my perambulations around the hearthrug by rocking chair are infinitely more dangerous than an astronaut's wildest rides through space.
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The furniture was sparse—a dresser with delft, a rough kitchen table with chairs, the armchair she sat in, and the rocking chair in which Mrs. Prendergast rocked, a black-and-white cat purring companionably on her lap.
Winter Bloom
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R. stretched out on the couch while G. and I unloaded the van but she could hardly wait to get into one of the rocking chairs on the front porch where we ate lunch and began the process of decompressing from our long journey.
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There was a rocking chair that sat next to a fireplace, which held a medium sized cooking cauldron that was spilling ashes onto the burgundy hearthrug.
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There were clowns in the corner in rocking chairs staring at you.
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Stripes, geometric shapes and patterns add whimsy to ordinary rocking chairs.
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Use ladderback chairs, rocking chairs, benches, wicker furniture and Windsor chairs.
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She'd pulled a quilt out of the armoire and wrapped herself in it, pulling the rocking chair around so she could see outside.
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Looking back on our lives from the rocking chair, do you suppose we'll wonder what grand dreams we might have chased with those hours instead?
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All three of these croaky crooners take two turns in the lead vocalist's rocking chair.
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Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far. Jodi Picoult
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Each participant spent a couple of weeks getting pledges of money for time spent in a continually moving rocking chair.
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The old man just sits on his rocking chair on the porch from day to day.
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Logan has Kidport play areas in Terminals A and C, rocking chairs, a public art program, pet relief areas outside each terminal and great (enclosed) views of the airfield from the top floors of the central garage in Terminals B or C. Nearby layover option
Boston Logan International Airport Guide
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She leads us through a sliding bookcase and there is Mrs Claus again in her rocking chair doing some knitting.
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There was a couch, a rocking chair, and two big squashy armchairs complete with an ottoman for each.
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We didn't realise at the time that a car seat also makes a very fine rocking chair.
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Canyon of the Eagles surprised me with its hilly terrain, unparalleled views of the Colorado River and Lake Buchanan and rustic cabins each outfitted with a deck where two rocking chairs lazed.
Charu Suri: Another Side of Lone Star State
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There were clowns in the corner in rocking chairs staring at you.
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There were thick green cushions on the settees and rocking chairs.
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The exhibit will also include a rocking chair owned by Ms. Mars 'grandfather, a slave in Virginia until he was 8, and a drop-front desk made by slaves in Missouri around 1850, an artifact from the collection of Dallas Heritage Village.
PegasusNews.com stories
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The first thing we see on stage is the old lady in her rocking chair silhouetted against a window.
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He sat in a rocking chair after dinner and smoked a long clay pipe.
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Keep your tail away from stoves, candles , lit cigarettes, garbage disposals, automatic dishwasher doors, children, rocking chairs, and dogs.
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Sitting in the rocking chair, Beth Durand lets the air conditioner blow her hair about her head, her eyes closed against the cold that almost numbs her skin.
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She leads us through a sliding bookcase and there is Mrs Claus again in her rocking chair doing some knitting.
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The oul lad simmered away, rocking ominously in and out of a beam of dust infused sunlight on his squeaky rocking chair.
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It is night in a tumbledown shack; an old woman in a rocking chair gazes at pictures of herself as a young opera star and, taking a draught of gin, she plays on an old cylinder phonograph the one surviving record of her voice.
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The mat on the change table was yellow, the blanket in the crib was green and yellow, and the cushion on the rocking chair was yellow.
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If it's 94, 93, 94, 93 that's what we call the rocking chair.
Oral History Interview with Edward Stephenson, September 21, 2002. Interview R-0193. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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This is a sad thing to have to say but it's time that the Clintons retired from the spotlight and parked themselves in rocking chairs on the front porch.
Bill Clinton lashes out at Vanity Fair reporter
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A young, auburn-haired woman sat in an ebony rocking chair.
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He was sitting on his porch, as always, rocking in his rocking chair and puffing on his pipe.
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One of their latest creations is a cantilevering rocking chair, the Ziprocker, made from walnut and cherry wood.
The Ziprocker from Zipshape at IMM Cologne 2009
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She heaved herself out of the rocking chair and plucked the binoculars from the table.
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Taking in the sunsets while you're relaxing on your own rocking chair is a must, especially with a rocket-powered rum punch mixed by Dougie, the resort's resident barman.
Richard Powell: Jamaica: A Dreadfully Good Getaway
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All adults were ‘guardian angels’ watching over us, especially the grandmas and grandpas sitting on their front porches in their rocking chairs.
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There was a huge ensuite with a freestanding bathtub and, out front, a porch with rocking chairs and wide views across the prairie towards the mountains.
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Say goodbye to the image of gray-haired grandparents in rocking chairs.
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An old man had rocked on a rocking chair on its floor, braiding his hair with string.
LISTENING WOMAN
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Then she had been lying in the nursery rocking chair as stuffed with straw as Andy and Teddy were full of beans.
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All adults were ‘guardian angels’ watching over us, especially the grandmas and grandpas sitting on their front porches in their rocking chairs.
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Hence, it's natural for me to go head over heels for Yaoyi - the cute rocking chair that is bundled with a supplementary benefit.
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Use ladderback chairs, rocking chairs, benches, wicker furniture and Windsor chairs.
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Especially on winter evenings after tea, when the fire glows in the open range and dances mirrored in the steel fender, when Father, in shirt-sleeves, sits in the rocking chair at one side of the fire reading the racing finals, and Mother sits on the other with her sewing, and the children are happy with a pennorth of mint humbugs, and the dog lolls roasting himself on the rag mat.
Intimate History
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Her mother was sitting in the dark by the stove in her rocking chair.
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There was a huge ensuite with a freestanding bathtub and, out front, a porch with rocking chairs and wide views across the prairie towards the mountains.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like recliners, many nineteenth-century rocking chair inventions were directed toward the special needs of the very young, the elderly, and the infirm.
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He sits in an old rocking chair on a porch, a guitar on his knee and a vacant stare on his face.
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We've claimed the two rocking chairs on the foredeck and sit up there and watch the yellow bank slowly rolling by.
Peeg and Brie (opening of a teen novel)
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I know my three bowls probably won't buy me a Maloof piece but I could throw in a little cash to even it out," the artist Ed Moulthrop wrote in 1976, offering some foot-wide pine and tulipwood bowls in exchange for a walnut rocking chair.
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Under the mansard roof of structure number 14, a figure rested in a rocking chair, studying a magazine.
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A younger person's way of getting an oldster out of his rocking chair!
OUT OF THE ASHES
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Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere. Erma Bombeck
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A used rocking chair was my bed, and when I found food, a soiled blue oilcloth was my table.
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With his advantage of massive amounts of Republican money, Burr has been blasting Marshall for the past six weeks with an insipid TV spot featuring two "folksy" old white men sitting in rocking chairs on a front porch -- a classic of fake down home style that attempts to echo "Andy of Mayberry.
Michael Carmichael: Elaine Marshall Blasts Richard Burr
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As we got out of the van we half-expected to see some old boy in dungarees with skin like a sun dried prune, sat in a rocking chair playing blues harmonica.
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A few minutes later the man returned carrying an antique rocking chair, with a small parcel tied with string to the armrest.
SOMEBODY
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She passed by the living room, where his mother was sitting in a rocking chair, knitting a sweater.
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In the end, the right wall only displayed an antique sideboard, the china cupboard, a quaint old rocking chair Brianna couldn't bear to part with and a bookshelf.
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Kiamo Ko was deathly still, except for old Nanny's labored breathing as she took a catnap in her rocking chair.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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Pine needles covered the rooftop. The porch, once home to a set of rocking chairs, was splintered and gapped from neglect.
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Older guys and women are really capable of doing things more than sitting in rocking chairs and pushing the remote control.
'Jackass 3D' Wins Weekend Box Office
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All she needs is the rocking chair in that dormer window where she sits all day long, crocheting and watching the neighbors.
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Dressed in a salmon pink dressing gown and rollers in her silvery hair, the old crone was sat in her favourite old rocking chair, surrounded by a group of people.
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She sat on the porch enthroned in a rocking chair with her feet propped up, and had two long, slow cups of coffee.
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the nodding (or napping) grandmother in her rocking chair
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Another classic being rediscovered is the rocking chair, with its pleasing organic shape and faintly folksy feel.
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Bringing her own rocking chair and a footstool so each child had a place to sit, each granny spun a 10-minute tale of her choice before the youngsters swapped places to hear from another storyteller.
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A younger person's way of getting an oldster out of his rocking chair!
OUT OF THE ASHES
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He sat in a rocking chair after dinner and smoked a long clay pipe.
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Kelly's blanket was over the rocking chair in the corner where I had put it and another blanket was draped in a similar fashion over the side of the crib where my mother had put it.
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Kiamo Ko was deathly still, except for old Nanny's labored breathing as she took a catnap in her rocking chair.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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I have a distinct memory of my grandma sitting in the rocking chair, knitting.
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Suites feature hot tubs, panoramic windows and rocking chairs.
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Along the planked floor of the porch, benches, wooden rocking chairs, and old metal lawn chairs lined up, facing out to the dusty fields.
