in repose

idiom

formal + literary

: at rest : sleeping

His face in repose is serious and thoughtful.

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There’s the pug in repose on a bay-window banquette in a $12.95 million townhouse on the Upper East Side. —

Clio Chang, Curbed, 14 June 2024 The report contends that, in repose to legal challenges and public concerns about straightforward bans on certain kinds of expression, proponents of censorship are increasingly trying to camouflage their tactics. —

Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024 Logo points out an ostrich in mating position and a leopard in repose. —

Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Jan. 2024 In scenes that find the Höss family in repose on the banks of the Sola, sound creates a canopy of futile escapism — the woodpeckers echoing the machine guns, the turtledoves grieving in the trees, the unceasing wails of Hedwig’s baby Annagret. —

Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for in repose