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    cushion example sentences

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    1. Kulai might ply her with two evenings of romance and culture in exchange for one union by the light of Narrulla on the cushion of their bedroom balcony


    2. She'd slept a couple hours, a couple more on the cushion in the front room, when she was supposed to be ready to say hello loudly


    3. leg, which is wedged between the cushion and the door


    4. He shudders, takes a cushion from his seat, hugs it close and lays his head on the table


    5. moulding the snug nest of cushion and arm


    6. on the floor to cushion my fall,


    7. As he fell he thrust out an arm to try and cushion his fall


    8. ‘Sensible!’ I repeated with a grin, grabbing a cushion from the sofa and hitting him with it


    9. In his hands he held a plush crimson velour cushion and on the cushion was a pair of brilliantly glittering shin pads


    10. the magic red cushion a bit over the top, Parekh-ji's logic was flawless

    11. and thought of the man on the velvet cushion


    12. ’ He said, as I raise a cushion menacingly


    13. minutes, she needed a cushion behind her back


    14. I used a condom,' I said as I shifted my cushion for comfort


    15. Koruki herself sat on a pillow in the middle of that bench, leaning on a cushion tied to the center window post


    16. cushion and on the cushion was a pair of brilliantly glittering shin


    17. The seat was her main room cushion in the bay window at the garden end of the house


    18. Enjteen panted, seethed and paced the two paces of the room, stepping over the legs of the overturned cushion in each direction


    19. “You didn’t hear it from me,” Kulai said, just as a formality, while turning around and motioning her to the better guest cushion, “but he left a contaminated room open, and in a separate case, contaminated all four of the biological samples he ever took in his career


    20. The corded tassel of an embroidered cushion is imprinted on Billy's cheek and his ear lobe hurts where it has been bent back by the awkward angle that his head has been lying at

    21. She put down the pocket-eye and sank into the cushion


    22. As Abi leaned forward to remove his tiles, Ben reached for the cushion on the sofa nearby and, with practised skill, he threw it at his sister, catching her full in the stomach …


    23. ‘You …!’ she screeched, catching the cushion up from the floor where it landed and threw it back


    24. Considering this house is so tiny, it is quite a feat mislaying something but all the same it takes me some ten or so minutes to locate the newspaper I want, tucked under a cushion on the sofa


    25. J’tom marched right in and flopped onto the far end of the cushion


    26. She led them up stairs to the cushion and he snapped back the lid and passed the cup


    27. Desa turned left around the table to the huge cushion that snaked all around the front room


    28. Knume’s fireplace was a semicircle, the focus of the cushion, the table and the sink, flanked by stairways down and up and set in the trunks of the house


    29. But once again, what would one really act like if one had grown up as he had? She stifled the anger and sat back up on the end of the cushion beside him


    30. She slid back farther on the cushion and before long they were lying side by side so he could just hold the book out and point to the letter in question

    31. They went over to the cushion after, and began on the second reading book


    32. After thinking about that he loosened up a little more and allowed her to get comfortable with him on the cushion


    33. She pulled him down till he was lying back on the cushion beside her, then she leaned up on an elbow against him


    34. The last book he had worked on was still on the couch-like cushion where they left it yesterday, with the sheet full of letters sticking out of it


    35. There was a dark shape on the cushion, perfectly motionless and silent, staring into the coals


    36. She propped the soft cushion so she could


    37. She sat in a cushion, not at a table, and bid him sit with her


    38. He wanted to slump into a cushion but realized they were still standing on the stair landing just inside his door


    39. She popped a bead from a tiny pocket in her ruffle and tossed it on the cup stand next to the end of the cushion his butt was heading for


    40. Luray sat on the cushion silent for awhile

    41. They sat together on the cushion nearer the kitchen end


    42. Oh here's Roberts key and no breakages Gill, so I'll leave my little girl with you, she likes to sleep on that cushion over there, she has had an adventurous morning


    43. She lead him to the cushion nearer the kitchen end


    44. She was lucky she hit the cushion


    45. She saw and felt that she was picked up by this monster and placed on the cushion reasonably comfortably


    46. Her movement came back rapidly and she stretched out comfortably on the cushion


    47. "So how'd it go?" was the first thing she asked as they parked on the cushion facing HakenCourt


    48. Underneath the cart a brown cushion had also appeared


    49. There was a pause when she came back to the cushion, they just looked at each other


    50. You can do this by resting your feet on books or a cushion











































    1. You need a cushioned shoe for comfort and to avoid injury when you’re exercising


    2. However we should try and stay away from heavily cushioned walking shoes


    3. “Why the stealth? I don’t need any intrigue,” she said as she laid back in a big, old, cushioned, wooden rocker that was surrounded by small tables with everything someone sedentary could want at arm’s reach


    4. and sat heavily into a cushioned rocking chair


    5. The elder man produced one of his hand-carved meerschaums, tamped an aromatic blend of tobacco into its bowl, lit it and sat back into the cushioned leather chair


    6. She dropped her head to the cushioned box seat and drew a deep breath


    7. With her back cushioned against the moss covered trunk, she thought of how far she had yet to go, and what awaited her at Lock Core


    8. While the water was released (through the cracks and the sides of the rocks eroded away by the friction and resulting in sediment that was deposited onto the surface of the Earth) the floating landmasses that were still cushioned by water, would start to move away from each other


    9. The seats were high-backed rectangular gilded thrones with colourful cushioned material


    10. “I don’t wish to discuss it,” was all Adem said, and then he sat on one of the high-backed cushioned chairs to rest his feet on a small stool

    11. The dark-eyed former ghost sat with her boots crossed over and legs out straight, her arms resting on either side of the thick cushioned seat


    12. Lydia and Elmira sat on cushioned sofas within the same large tent, both of them whispering about Adem and Jean


    13. Jimmy tried lifting his head, but fell back against the cushioned support


    14. Letting her head fall back against the car’s cushioned headrest, Mai Cox closed her eyes, trying to erase the memories that kept flooding into her mind; the crushed bodies by the exit door of the cinema, the chewed and mangled flesh of the patrons who’d been attacked by the cats, the small girl they’d found with her eyes torn out - at least they’d been able to save her


    15. Eventually even the cushioned chairs became uncomfortable


    16. In a large wood panelled room, the Queen Mother is sitting in her favourite well cushioned chair


    17. The drifted snow cushioned his fall to some degree, but he came down hard on his shoulder and hip, the wind momentarily knocked out of him


    18. She sat on a cushioned seat near the fire in the house of Libuse and let her eyes trace the outlines of the faces that sat at the table with her


    19. rocks and there were cushioned redwood chairs set around a large


    20. The wings plunged downwards, wrapping him in their cushioned warmth, and he felt the sudden punch of the raven’s beak on his face, piercing the scar which Isabella had tried to heal

    21. Exhausted, I cushioned my head on the saddlebag, covered myself with leaves and remembered no more ‘til early morning


    22. cushioned his head with it


    23. Feeling somewhat awed by stone balustrades, broad steps and portico, he pressed the bell and was ushered into a lounge-room literally stuffed with deeply cushioned couches, arm chairs, small tables, oriental carpets, knickknacks, souvenirs and colourful daubs of minarets and camels silhouetted against desert sunsets


    24. This is a mind unchecked, pin cushioned and leading you down the path of destruction


    25. He found that the umbrella cushioned his landing


    26. Brightly cushioned couches, low wooden tables and oriental rugs dotted the floor; paintings enlivened the walls


    27. Matthew knew the point he was making, in that he and Ivan were cushioned by the fact that they were born and brought up in Slough


    28. There was a meetings table with four cushioned chairs in the corner of the office, and the two visitors were guided to this by the secretary


    29. Andrew and James put him to rest on the cushioned seat in the stern of the boat


    30. The city lawyer, reclining in the luxuriously cushioned seat, suddenly leaned forward and watched the rocky, sun-bleached island with its ancient ruins -- crumbling tributes to great deities, Hera, Apollo and the love goddess, Aphrodite

    31. The room was round with two large cushioned chairs positioned on a small platform in the middle of the room


    32. Next I kicked off my shoes and put on the new ones which had a cushioned sole and cupped my feet well with laces on top


    33. But his fall was cushioned by a mass of vines wrapped around his upper body


    34. There was a black cushioned, sleek seat with mechanical gloves extended with a metallic frame like a forearm resting just above the chair’s arms


    35. Her knees were cushioned by


    36. Even under those circumstances Aureliano and Fernanda did not share their solitude, but both continued living on their own, cleaning their respective rooms while the cobwebs fell like snow on the rose bushes, carpeted the beams, cushioned the walls


    37. ” He motioned to the left side of a cushioned teak loveseat and poured each of them a glass from the chilled magnum of champagne


    38. Sindisi cushioned his head as they thumped down to the sharp rock


    39. Fortunately, his fall was cushioned by the grumpy dwarf who was clinging on to his shoulders


    40. He heard the cushioned sound of a metallic clank

    41. “Please, have a seat,” the professor invited, indicating an old wooden chair with a dark burgundy cushioned seat similar to some she remembered from her grandmother’s house


    42. “Wow,” Cali said, putting down a half-eaten slice of pizza and leaning back against the cushioned booth


    43. Sophie shrugged, the anger fading quickly as she fell back into her cushioned chair


    44. The ornate design of the cushioned chairs and wooden tables was the prime feature of the living room


    45. I was about to sit on the velvet cushioned chair near the fireplace when a familiar voice caught my attention


    46. cushioned stands were positioned close to and around the center


    47. Not when Parker had cushioned our finances so generously


    48. With her face cushioned in Joel’s shoulder, Kathy’s sobbing eased to a muffled, snuffling hic-cupping, interspersed with an occasional shuddering sigh, a reflexive action which always occurred in the aftermath of any crying spell she had


    49. He was relieved to see she’d suffered very little in the fall, in part because of the cast, but mostly because his body had cushioned her fall, and had protected her injured limb from further injury


    50. Except now they had cushioned smart soles!


































    1. He had won the fight calmly and with determination and, after yet another trip to the infirmary to fix his broken nose and fingers, he had returned to his room acknowledging his remorse for Gabriel, but with hope cushioning the guilt


    2. I managed to find a thick pair of socks with only a few holes in the toes, but I figured the cushioning effect would ease the pain of walking


    3. He completed fastening the gear on Hilderich, binding the ropes and setting the large leaf across Hilderich’s back, as a sort of cushioning to ease the friction without which he believed he’d be unable to move him more than a foot


    4. The fact they chose to materialize over water necessitated a buoyant device, and should the drop to either water or land be appreciable, they required a sturdy vehicle with some cushioning


    5. would fall into trees, cushioning the blow and tumble


    6. He was either cushioning


    7. The woman…well it was obviously was Alteria, so Joey didn’t have to guess anymore as to who she was, laid in the red cushioning of the coffin with her arms across her chest


    8. Look for boxes that are bigger than the breakable objects you plan on putting inside in order to leave space for firm cushioning with paper on the inside


    9. � The layers of neoprene foam sandwiching the plate pockets, on top of making the vest more comfortable to wear and cushioning any eventual impact, prevented the plates from clanking between them


    10. The rear ramp started coming down just before the aircraft touched the ground smoothly, its ten large, low-pressure main wheels cushioning their landing on the pavement

    11. • Just good schooling and tuitions are not substitutes for emotional cushioning


    12. Perhaps the cushioning effect actually added to ones height as they jumped, he imagined


    13. All that wouldn’t have been so bad if we did the exercise in a nice field, filled with a luscious cover of soft cushioning grass


    14. They both tumbled to the floor, with Joel’s body cushioning the impact of her fall, while the happy canine perched heavily on top of them


    15. Gabrysia by instinct bent her legs at the knees as her feet hit the ground, cushioning her landing so she did not hurt herself


    16. But even as every inward cell twitched and fluttered, outwardly he was comatose, curled on his side, with Grandpa’s hat cushioning his head and his pajama bottoms picking up stains from the tile and his size 14 combat boots trying to stay drawn up out of sight between the ugly stucco planters


    17. Alistair’s voice thickened, cushioning his words


    18. He was, in short, in his after-dinner mood; more expanded and genial, and also more self-indulgent than the frigid and rigid temper of the morning; still he looked preciously grim, cushioning his massive head against the swelling back of his chair, and receiving the light of the fire on his granite-hewn features, and in his great, dark eyes; for he had great, dark eyes, and very fine eyes, too—not without a certain change in their depths sometimes, which, if it was not softness, reminded you, at least, of that feeling


    1. " Jorma knew that Herndon was pretty excited about his boat because he popped back out the hatch and lifted one of the seat cushions to show him


    2. She lies back against the sofa cushions and closes her eyes for a moment


    3. There were a couple cushions that she was pretty sure he had deleted years ago that she deleted again


    4. its cushions moulded with heavy seated shallows


    5. I stand and look at the lounge, tweaking the cushions into shape again


    6. ‘Jo! Need some help?’ Jake called, laughing with us, and starting to bombard his father with cushions


    7. Under the cushions, she had a stereo


    8. pushed me back on the cushions and brought her mouth close to mine for my


    9. I don't know if it was the candlelight or the birthday mood or the cushions or


    10. bookshelf overturned, the cushions on the couch hanging out, and my father

    11. It was cluttered with shelves, tables, cushions and racks


    12. shifting on the cushions beneath him uneasily


    13. The cushions were over on the bathroom sides between the beds as seating in the lower hall


    14. Two huge cushions lined the walls


    15. with blankets and cushions behind the microphone, and on the floor if you do


    16. I fell against the cushions


    17. Mim and Yula slunk down onto the cushions of the vacated seat---right at home


    18. Potential aviators should be warned now that the way to becoming airborne is not paved with comfy chairs and scatter cushions


    19. The booth cushions came out easily, and I wrapped tablecloths around them to hold them together


    20. }, of some triclinaria, a sort of woollen pillows or cushions made use of to lean upon as they reclined upon their couches at table, passes all credibility; some of them being said to have cost more than £30,000, others more than £300,000

    21. “No, just a couple more blankets and a few cushions that we can use as pillows,” Elizabeth answered


    22. As the only conceivable option now, Scott got out of the spacesuit and onto the chair, placing his head inside the arch like it was some scanner, slightly raised side cushions held his head; they had cold spots which he took to be metal contacts


    23. Drawers were emptied, cushions slashed open


    24. from the position of the green cushions on the


    25. Large silver bowls full of fruit stood around the floor area, scattered with cushions and blankets


    26. Oars were already onboard, as well as—hopefully—some floating cushions and a jug or two of fresh water


    27. He tossed the cushions onto the settee and grunted


    28. All about me a thousand thin needles, soft as cushions


    29. major banks would fail, and families could see their financial cushions


    30. When we draw closer, I see rows of benches inside it with maroon cushions on them

    31. I flop back onto the cushions, and I feel cold without her body parallel to mine


    32. The cushions seem to wrap around him


    33. It had no box-spring, no mattress, no fitted sheet; rather, it was a mere wooden plank with a few large cushions resting above


    34. His body sank into thick blue cushions, reminding him of the


    35. Two of the gangsters sat on cushions around


    36. Back in her room, she threw the cushions off the futon and flattened it into a bed


    37. Manda ran over to the couch and grabbed two cushions


    38. As he laid me back with the power of his physique, I felt myself falling into my cushions and mattress deeper with his body pushing into mine, resting on top of me


    39. the dank cushions of an old futon


    40. the cushions, I shimmied down his pants and displaced the fabric of his underwear--the

    41. My truck seats, forklift seats, and cushions outperformed and outlasted the


    42. He had made cushions for


    43. I’m by the window seat, resting on a bed of cushions


    44. My shoulders slump, and with a sigh, I relax my back on the cushions


    45. The white walls are almost the same shade as the large sofas dressed with patterned cushions


    46. The designs on the cushions carry a combination of the colors in the room, camel, pastel-green, brown and gray


    47. the cushions, it feels heavenly!”


    48. Maintenance and repair costs might be suspended or delayed, cost-cutting is never pleasant but the budgeting process makes it easier to know where the cushions and ‘fat’ is that can be trimmed or eaten away at, without risking heart and limb!


    49. Of the flyers, some flew while standing as the rest of their party did, some sat on chairs or cushions, some lounged on blankets or carpets, and the fastest of them lay forward with their arms out, like soaring birds


    50. Gail was looking at me while she adjusted the cushions










































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    Synonyms for "cushion"

    cushion shock shock absorber buffer soften bumper fender sham bolster mat pad seat alleviate check meliorate slow

    "cushion" definitions

    a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses


    the layer of air that supports a hovercraft or similar vehicle


    a soft bag filled with air or a mass of padding such as feathers or foam rubber etc.


    protect from impact