Example Sentences

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The figure on the Louisville ledge reacted, in turn, just like the figure who had poised on the ledge in Boston.

From Time Magazine Archive

By 1933, their collaboration had poised the University of California to take its place as one of the great academic centers of the world, one of the richest institutions and most ambitious.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Amaya lowered a metal paperweight she’d had poised to hurl.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

Mark, who had poised his spear, put it down again on the grass.

From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard

With a quickness that I'll warrant would have done no discredit to a cat, I had poised myself on the precarious sill, and had twisted myself into a favourable position for reaching the roof.

From The Wayfarers by Snaith, J. C.