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Perch in sentence

37 examples of Perch in a sentence

Cookie Monster is waving at you from his perch on top of a tan horse.
At the beginning of class, I just perch it in the back of the classroom.
Right now, we're training condors not to perch on power lines.
Our Makani energy kite rises up from its perch by spinning up those propellers along its wing.
I was bored from the onset and it only got worse as the cavemen bobbled around hitting each other, making poor jokes such as puns on the word perch, hitting each other, and mauling poor Seta Berger who looks like she lost a bet to a producer to appear in this nonsense.
Carole Lombard was unable to save it on her own, despite her talents, and she flails around like a lost parakeet who cannot find her perch.
Two loving parents feed their happy baby on the perch of their country home.
And, finally, from this perch, one of the most engaging sidelights here is the wondrous staging of the opera house, wherein Chiang Kai-shek ogles and woos May-ling.
When the parrot drops off its perch in the cage, the customer insists that it is now clear that the parrot is dead.
The High-level Trade Group, co-chaired by myself and Peter Sutherland, argued at Davos that this can best be achieved through a high-stakes gamble of announcing a date – such as the end of 2011 – by which the negotiations are declared completed or the parrot is knocked off its perch.
Maybe not, but Americans will certainly find global hegemony a lot more expensive if the dollar falls off its perch.
From his perch at Oxford, where he became a fellow at All Souls College, he continued to tell inconvenient truths and remained an intellectual and moral presence in his country throughout its struggles against the oppressive regime, a series of workers’ uprisings, the rise of the Solidarity movement, and the final collapse of the regime in 1989.
Now that Bannon is gone, however, he will hurl missives from his new-old perch at Breitbart, to which he returned the same day as his announced departure.
Of course, if the dollar were to fall off its perch as the world’s dominant currency any time soon, the euro would be the only serious alternative.
As for me, with your permission I'll go perch on the bobstays under the bowsprit, and if we can get within a harpoon length, I'll harpoon the brute."
Example: the common perch."
The ANGLER'S GUIDE TO THE THAMES says that "jack and perch are also to be had about here," but there the ANGLER'S GUIDE is wrong.
Jack and perch may BE about there.
Anybody can come in and say, "Oh, I caught fifteen dozen perch yesterday evening;" or "Last Monday I landed a gudgeon, weighing eighteen pounds, and measuring three feet from the tip to the tail."
"Aye, startle the birds from their perch - let us see how they can use the wing."
Mr. Winkle mounted to the box, the fat boy waddled to the same perch, and fell fast asleep instantly.
It was a curious little green box on four wheels, with a low place like a wine-bin for two behind, and an elevated perch for one in front, drawn by an immense brown horse, displaying great symmetry of bone.
Mr. Tupman and Mr. Snodgrass got into the bin; Mr. Pickwick ascended to his perch, and deposited his feet on a floor-clothed shelf, erected beneath it for that purpose.
Mr. Tupman threw himself into the hedge, Mr. Snodgrass followed his example, the horse dashed the four--wheeled chaise against a wooden bridge, separated the wheels from the body, and the bin from the perch; and finally stood stock still to gaze upon the ruin he had made.
My uncle descended from his perch in a twinkling.
I was just balancing whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her landau when a cab came through the street.
As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into the iron safe, which he closed upon it.
A parrot instantly swooped down from the trees on the morsel, and took it back to his perch in the branches.
The fowl must have been sought for a long time on the perch, to which it had retired to die of old age.
But the driver had already climbed back into his perch, laughing as loudly as any of his companions.