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Perched in sentence

61 examples of Perched in a sentence

Pictures like this, people perched on a fire hydrant, not the mark of a world-class city.
And he handed little Malek over to Bassem and to Doaa, and they perched her onto the life ring.
Using feathers from the flocks that perched on the tower, and the wax from candles, Daedalus constructed two pairs of giant wings.
Yet New York City's Columbus Circle has had him perched 76 feet high next to Central Park since 1892.
I kept seeing it perched on the horror movie shelf in my local video rental shop and never thought much about it.
It has been said, "a city on hill cannot hide itself" and Virginia City, Nevada, perched on the side of Mt.
Would you spend the night, following a traffic accident, in a bizarre futuristic home built atop the ruins of a fortress perched over a horrific World War One battlefield?
Why were the sisters wearing tiny crescent shaped coifs perched on their heads which didn't exist, and shewing their hair, to boot?
Who can resist the obscene spectacle of Charles Bronson's rude hamburger face perched atop one of the most classically sculpted physiques in pre-Schwarzenegger stardom?
Tweety is perched in his cage on the ledge and Sylvester is across the street at the "Bird Watching Society" Building on about the same level.
This one should be perched at the very top of the heap.
But German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s understandable desire to discipline the spendthrifts entails sawing away at the last remaining branch on which Germany’s bankers and taxpayers are perched.
Moreover, the French mapping effort took place just a decade after Siam ceded a clutch of territories – much of today’s western Cambodia – to France, which was then perched above Indochina as the colonial master At that time, a vulnerable Siam was compelled to sign a host of unequal treaties with European powers in exchange for maintaining its independence.
As always, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict stands perched between diplomacy and violence.
The Harsh Lessons of 2009NEW YORK – The best that can be said for 2009 is that it could have been worse, that we pulled back from the precipice on which we seemed to be perched in late 2008, and that 2010 will almost surely be better for most countries around the world.
Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife’s edge.
After all, Syria is strategically perched on the Mediterranean; shares borders with Israel, Jordan, Turkey, and Iraq; and, like Iraq, has its own restive Kurdish minority.
Above all, however, he has achieved a 6.3% effective reduction of poverty, after taking over a country whose vast majority - 80% - was perched between poverty and squalor.
Europeans might usefully look back 60 years, to a time when their own countries, perched on the brink of a similar collapse, received the help that they needed to recover – help that has put them in a position to do something similar for Greece today.
China’s growth rate remains perched at a very high level, so there is a great deal of room to fall.
The Carbon CliffCAPE TOWN – We are perched on the edge of a precipice: a devastating overheating of the planet caused by fossil-fuel use.
The problems of the city’s poor neighborhoods have not been erased, but the benefits that the infrastructure improvements have brought are brilliantly evident in the well-kept houses, murals, and soccer fields perched near the gondola stations.
Managing the Next Gold RushWASHINGTON, DC – The International Seabed Authority (ISA) sits perched above the concrete boardwalk of Jamaica’s Kingston Harbor, across the bay from the spot where “Calico Jack” Rackham was once gibbeted as a warning to other eighteenth-century pirates.
For example, an employee might find herself perched on the edge of the bathtub, precariously balancing a computer on her knees, so that her partner and children can conduct their business or school work from the living room, bedroom, and kitchen.
I saw you behind Réquillart; more by token he'd perched himself on a boundary-stone."
Twenty times a day some error in perception, or the optical illusions of some sailor perched in the crosstrees, would cause intolerable anguish, and this emotion, repeated twenty times over, kept us in a state of irritability so intense that a reaction was bound to follow.
Some officers were already perched on the mastheads.
On February 6 the Nautilus cruised in sight of the city of Aden, perched on a promontory connected to the continent by a narrow isthmus, a sort of inaccessible Gibraltar whose fortifications the English rebuilt after capturing it in 1839.
Here and in the shadows, birds of prey soared and whirled, flying away from nests perched on tips of rock.
But Berthe remained perched on the bed.
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