How do you use Supine in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like passive or inactive, plus the exact meaning.
Supine in a sentence
Supine meaning
- Lying on its back.
- Turned facing toward the body or upward: with the thumb outward (palm up), or with the big toe raised relative to the little toe.
- Reluctant to take action due to indifference or moral weakness; apathetic or passive towards something.
Using Supine
- The main meaning on this page is: Lying on its back. | Turned facing toward the body or upward: with the thumb outward (palm up), or with the big toe raised relative to the little toe. | Reluctant to take action due to indifference or moral weakness; apathetic or passive towards something.
- Useful related words include: resupine, unerect, resistless, unresisting.
- In the example corpus, supine often appears in combinations such as: the supine, supine in, more supine.
Context around Supine
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Supine
- In this selection, "supine" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, skippy, semi, lay, hypertension, position and maniacal stand out and add context to how "supine" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a semi supine position during and and the supine exists for. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "supine" sits close to words such as abad, abolishment and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with supine
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The pilot lies prone (sometimes supine) within a large, triangular, metal control frame. (13 words)
Capotondi says she was more supine in the book; he wanted a strong personality. (14 words)
It has completely replaced the infinitive and the supine from complex expressions (see below). (14 words)
Those courageous enough to speak out against the status quo and conservative orthodoxies do so at a time where the president of the United States will personally attack anyone not supine enough to engage in paid patriotism and shallow nationalism. (40 words)
Lateral positions (sleeping on a side), as opposed to supine positions (sleeping on the back), are also recommended as a treatment for sleep apnea, citation citation citation largely because the gravitational component is smaller in the lateral position. (38 words)
He and the evil John Bolton, aggressively moved to disable pandemic prevention forces in the U.S. government, boosted by supine, maniacal right wing talk radio show hosts (Rush Limbaugh said the virus is “just a cold”). (37 words)
Example sentences (18)
Back in the day, we celebrated Dodger pitching ace, Clem Labine; now we find Skippy Supine in the front office, lying down for the worst in our culture to roll right over him.
The two FDA-approved therapies for nOH each have black box warnings on the label, highlighting the risk of supine hypertension.
The crew will be in a semi-supine position during the ascent and descent phase of the flight.
Capotondi says she was more supine in the book; he wanted a strong personality.
He and the evil John Bolton, aggressively moved to disable pandemic prevention forces in the U.S. government, boosted by supine, maniacal right wing talk radio show hosts (Rush Limbaugh said the virus is “just a cold”).
Another man lay supine on the golf path, which was littered with loose acorns and bark.
But the supine response to the fanatics of XR is something which this country needs to address – and quickly.
I immediate positioned him supine and also freed his respiratory airways by tilting his head backwards a bit.
He has been aided and abetted by a supine Board of Directors who bow and submit to his every whim.
He was clearly sending a signal to the president that as attorney general, he would be even more supine than the traditionally deferential White House counsel.
Supine and fawning submission, of the sort we saw at that famous cabinet meeting in June 2017 (notably excepting Mattis), is what the president will expect of his next secretary.
This supine self-censorship goes way beyond political correctness, a shop-worn term too pallid for the profundity of the problem.
Those courageous enough to speak out against the status quo and conservative orthodoxies do so at a time where the president of the United States will personally attack anyone not supine enough to engage in paid patriotism and shallow nationalism.
It has completely replaced the infinitive and the supine from complex expressions (see below).
Lateral positions (sleeping on a side), as opposed to supine positions (sleeping on the back), are also recommended as a treatment for sleep apnea, citation citation citation largely because the gravitational component is smaller in the lateral position.
The fourth principal part is sometimes omitted for intransitive verbs, but strictly in Latin, they can be made passive if they are used impersonally, and the supine exists for such verbs.
The pilot lies prone (sometimes supine) within a large, triangular, metal control frame.
These verbs have only three principal parts, since the perfect of ordinary passives is formed periphrastically with the perfect participle, which is formed on the same stem as the supine.
Common combinations with supine
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the supine 4×
- supine in 2×
- more supine 2×
- by supine 2×
- supine and 2×