How To Use Poised In A Sentence

I wrote it early in 1945 and it was published in Wireless World in October, just after the war had ended, and it laid down the principles which now determine the world's communication system, the idea that you'd have satellites poised at such a height above the earth that they remained stationery in the sky and so-called synchronous, or geostationary, orbit. Great voices of science fiction
Ancelotti is poised to become the puppet master of this summer's transfer dealings. The Sun
While Mona stares uncomfortably into the horse's eye, Tamsin regards her with poised bemusement.
De Havilland's poised, elegant Miriam is the perfect foil for haggard, wild-eyed Charlotte.
A product of the Reagan-Bush era, she's been steadily counterpoised to the of the right. THE SELLING OF SEX

You're graceful, poised, tactful and exude quite a refined, princess-like presence.
He could not imagine this calm, poised woman before him using language like that, but the young girl within her?
Anthony remained standing, gazing at a large, smouldering log that looked poised to roll forward undesirably. IN LOVE AND WAR
Although many trees have been removed from homes and businesses, others remain precariously poised to fall. Harsh winter predictions
POISED with its wings spread out in the air, the gannet was the ideal subject for Javier Martin’s photograph. Hanging About For the Perfect Photograph | Impact Lab
We're poised for dynamic growth and we're committed to helping you succeed.
Materials and finishes - epoxy resin floors, simple plastered walls, steel, precast concrete and waxed oak - are austere, and colours muted: gun-metal grey and white counterpoised to the warmth of wood.
Our region is poised for growth once the election is out of the way.
If this trend continues, building societies are poised to provide a greater competitive challenge to the retail banking sector. 2.
The arrival of Bakala seems to confirm rumors this week in Europe that cyclo-cross world champion Zdenek Stybar is poised to join Quick Step and make a run at the spring classics. Quick Step takeover makes room for Zdenek Stybar arrival
All parts of the sphere were nicely counterpoised.
And spurring that doubt are a growing crop of policy makers like Darrell Issa, profiled recently in the New Yorker, as a Republican representative poised to become Chairman of the Oversight Committee, who last year quoted Genesis at a congressional hearing to dismiss the dangers of climate change, As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease... Kate Otto: "Rapid Response" to an Ancient Issue (VIDEO)
It is also deftly poised on the border between belief and unbelief.
Vermeer's dreamy interior light and Manet's poised brushstrokes are beautifully rendered, and Bierk even duplicates the cracking of paint.
Pierced by curves and angles of thin metal, the precarious, canted structure is poised on elegant little wheels. The Artist in All His Dimensions
It is hard not to gasp at the speed of the ascent and my admiration is more marked, and more edgy, because I know that the whole structure is balanced on a bearing the size of a small, round coffee table, like a pencil poised on the tip of its lead.
Aged 25 years above, mature, poised , good interpersonal skills, extrovert, strong in negotiation and persuasiveness.
The same woman waited until the delicately poised last chords of Mahler's slow movement to get up and leave.
The deal is a turning point for the 32-year-old firm poised to commercialise its novel drug programmes. Deal Boost for Biocon
It's a kind of outdoor room, properly called a loggia, poised at the top of a flight of steps. How I Spent a Few Days in Palladio's World
Riding a wave of unchecked immigration and seemingly eluding law enforcement, the Mexican Mafia is poised to become the Cosa Nostra of 21st century America.
From her slim hands, poised delicatly = yet stiffly = around the remote to her car stereo, to the stretch of long, organized, red hair that dangles down the front of her hippish-styled Target shirt = of which she has purchased all they produced since last may = Shes batting her eyes at me, thick, clumped mascara on curled, lined eyelashes ... she speaks. Breakthedark Diary Entry
She finally paints Adele, a subject she believes to be as poised and beautiful as the Madonna, but crumples up the sketch and throws it away.
The driver was a young giant, and when he climbed on top his load and poised a lump of coal in both hands, a policeman, who was just scaling the wagon from the side, let go and dropped back to earth. SOUTH OF THE SLOT
In the century and a half that she has stood there, poised to award that outstretched laurel crown, many women who deserve the honours have passed by uncelebrated.
The 26-year-old received a spiral fracture of the right leg last May, but is poised to start the final surge back to full fitness next week.
‘Sloan,’ used as a noun, should be poised to enter the vernacular as slang for ‘many things to many people.’
“Having served as a law school dean in the past, Trish is poised to strengthen a variety of aspects of the school, including the faculty and its academic programs,” stated UM Executive Vice President and Provost Dr. Tom LeBlanc. Discourse.net: Patricia D. White to Be Dean of University of Miami School of Law
Then potential menace turned to pure joy as two more orcas joined the first and together they porpoised toward the setting sun.
The rebels are poised for a new assault on the government garrisons.
They are too anxious about being something else than simply men, not firmly enough poised.
Out spreads the canvas -- alow, aloft-boom-stretched, on both sides, with many a stun 'sail; till like a hawk, with pinions poised, we shadow the sea with our sails, and reelingly cleave the brine. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)
The pair of them make a delightfully balanced couple, his gentle intellectuality counterpoised by her firm practicality.
The painting is perhaps a study in the poised moment. The Times Literary Supplement
A Wall Street Journal analysis of market data provided by Elroy Dimson , Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton of the London Business School suggests the central-bank intervention might indeed be a turning point for the markets: U.S. and emerging-market stocks may be poised to outperform, while European stocks could be headed for more trouble. How to Play the Rescue
Similar, open-air cinema spaces created a sensational roofscape - with the whole ensemble poised over a stepped podium in sandstone.
She's like a child grown in a pod on Mars: far too poised and intelligent to resemble any kid from our planet.
Yet despite that lesson in civics, Republican primary voters are poised once again to make the most radical gesture in choosing their nominee. Monday Night « Gerry Canavan
All I can think about is Pat Benatar, spreadeagled and bent over saying "love is a battlefield" while Mike Patton stands behind, poised, saying "no, Pat, love is a fist... BSNYC Firday Fun Quiz!
Artistic vision, imagination and intuition seem poised in tense opposition to order and rationality.
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors is poised tomorrow to deliver yet another slap to the cadre of railroad dreamers who have been hoping against hope, year after year, to restore freight service along the 10-years-dead Northwestern Pacific Railroad line and so develop the similarly stagnant Humboldt Bay into some kind of entrepot in Pacific Rim international trade. North Coast Journal Comments
Like a Byzantine chant, an obscure collection of religious doctrines - brands - stands poised to take over employee larynges and employee minds.
It is difficult not to wax nostalgic when gold is counterpoised to inflation, currency depreciation, exchange-rate uncertainty and chronic balance-of-payments shortfalls.
As he stopped his horse Barbara came up the street, her _tinaja_ poised on her head. Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories
In this sense, it is appropriate to see in colonial Brazil an effective dominant culture counterpoised to an alternative popular culture.
In the open spaces on the slope, beyond the farthest shadow-reach of the manzanita, poised the mariposa lilies, like so many flights of jewelled moths suddenly arrested and on the verge of trembling into flight again. All Gold Cañon
Polls in the past month have shown consistently that Mr. Sarkozy may not even make it to the election run-off, with International Monetary Fund boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Front National leader Marine Le Pen poised to outvote him in the first round. Sarkozy Set to Run for Re-election
The poised and fashionable Fitzwilliam openly admitted to failing courses in second year law and of her determination to pass.
It's not her fault that she looks like a man, or has a gravelly voice, or isn't particularly poised or charming.
Combining an innovative business model, a passion for social media, and a desire to deliver a flight of fabulous fancy each and every day, CEO Shauna Mei of AHAlife has turned a consumer's desire for high-touch, curatorial experiences into what's poised to be a formidable force in the luxury e-tailer space. Felicia C. Sullivan: Interview: Shauna Mei, CEO/Founder of AHAlife
To develop this observation a bit further, the nation implied by the document would be an elective dictatorship, governed not by three counterpoised branches of government but by a secretive, possibly benign, awesomely powerful king. January 2006
Two wickets had fallen in three balls, and Pakistan were delicately poised at 109 for 3.
More than 4,000 people were poised for evacuation today after flood defences on the River Derwent were breached two miles from Howden, near Selby.
By this stage the adrenaline had started pumping around my body, I felt I was ready for anything; alert and poised.
The dancer was poised on one foot.
Wasn't there a brutally tyrannical rabbit society counterpoised to the longed-for, sought-after egalitarian rabbit utopia? BEA/ALA, booksellers, librarians
Because of these efforts, the Haiti's main seaport is even poised to reopen in a couple of days. Blog for Democracy: January 2010 Archives
SAN FRANCISCO - California is poised to formally adopt the nation's most comprehensive so-called "cap-and-trade" system, designed to provide a financial incentive for polluters to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
I ask, pencil poised above my personalized notepad purloined from the office.
Their craggy Nab, poised above the Tees estuary, was as proud a landmark as neighbouring Roseberry Topping.
Poised along the stream are a pair of coyote sculptures cut from sheet metal and allowed to develop a rusty patina.
He watched in horrified fascination as the lieutenant took out a single match and poised it over the striking strip.
What was supposed to be a poised and dignified parade towards the centrepiece of the show, quickly turned into a sort of slow motion stampede. FRIENDS FOR LIFE
The court reporter remained poised over the stenography machine, its unlabeled black keys a mystery to everyone but her. RUNNING FROM THE LAW
She felt about as poised as a baby elephant taking his first steps, she thought miserably.
You see them occasionally: a skier ghosting through trees in total control, a climber spidering up a sheer rock face with ease, a poised surfer rocketing out of a perfect barrel.
It will also reassure policy makers at the Bank of England, who contend that inflation is poised to slow precipitously this year and risks undershooting its 2% target by the fourth quarter. U.K. Inflation Slows Sharply
The balance was perfect, cunningly counterpoised and never accidental. Speaking in Tongues
A small table stood nearby on which ivory chessmen stood poised in combat on an inlaid board.
I crouched, sniffing and listening, every muscle poised for flight.
A white bird poised on a wire and fluttered its wings.
With the club poised to go out of business on January 18 unless a new owner can be found, the sickening injury left Brass fearful he may have played his last game for the club.
One dusty street has all the town's shops, with a small grid of deteriorating roads and tumbledown shacks huddling between the sea and the low, brushy jungle that somehow looks poised to devour the suburbs.
A Yorkshire hospice for sick and dying children is poised to win a massive lottery boost, it was reported today.
These figures kill off any hope that the economy is poised for recovery.
Just who is this driver poised to become world champion in his 11th season of trying? Times, Sunday Times
Newport looked poised to run away with it, but Bridgend refused to cave in.
If after every decision the will reverted to a state of indecision and oscillation equipoised between good and evil, the basis for confidence in our fellow men would be gone. The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination
The hope is that, after so many years of cutting back, the industry has shed most of its overcapacity and is poised for an upturn as demand rebounds.
US forces are poised for a massive air, land and sea assault.
He was like a large, beautiful cat, poised and motionless, but prepared to leap.
City had begun with purpose, and barely let up their poised assurance from those emphatic first few seconds. Times, Sunday Times
His poised, persuasive presentation won them over.
IT looks scarily like a man poised to jump from a building - and has shocked commuters around London. The Sun
The horseman should be poised, relaxed and in control of the situation.
Photographs can also point out the extraordinary or magical in the seemingly irrelevant, as in Bolucevschi Vitali's prizewinning image of ants poised like dancers in stellar form.
A slender ballerina poised on a strongly arched foot, black hair in a chignon, eyes like great black butterflies.
Look elegant and poised style, red brick, three - section , octagonal windows, exquisite taste can not be replaced.
Intertwined with the fossils, skeletons and carcasses of the myriad creatures that once inhabited the oceans, it seems poised to wrench itself free from the stone that entombs it.
His finger was poised on the camera's shutter release.
Eleanor walked into the ballroom with the grace of a dancer, poised and elegant.
Poised on the western periphery of Europe, Portugal has always been on the edge, looking outwards.
He is also a poised senior who makes 84.2 percent of his free throws.
It flashed across me in an instant that, if I could throw the horse down into the ditch, the wheels of the wagon might, perhaps, rest equipoised on each side, and, perhaps, break the horse loose from the wagon. Letters and Journals 01
She was as poised and elegant as her breeding required, Grace thought, and certainly she dressed as befitted her status.
Early last week, speculation began to emerge that Lehman Brothers was poised to bid and the deal would be stitched up in time for the upcoming results announcement.
You poised the sledge on a giddy height and down you would fly. The Sun
And spurring that doubt are a growing crop of policy makers like Darrell Issa, profiled recently in the New Yorker, as a Republican representative poised to become Chairman of the Oversight Committee, who last year quoted Genesis at a congressional hearing to dismiss the dangers of climate change, As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease ... Kate Otto: "Rapid Response" to an Ancient Issue (VIDEO)
Britain was poised to fly medical staff to the country at short notice.
The economy is poised for recovery.
Poised on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, Lisbon, which was a great maritime power in the 15th century, enjoys a melange of cultures few cities can match.
There were the rolling eye, the raised hoof poised to kick. The Times Literary Supplement
State legislators are poised for a spending spree - on stadiums and prisons
The next veggie is a poised and pretty, long strands of green blending into white ... Archive 2007-05-01
A sharp contrast they presented, -- the German, erect, well-poised, plainly a soldier in spite of his ill-fitting clothes; the American, lank and stomachless, yet taller than the other in spite of his bent shoulders. A Tar-Heel Baron
A mental snapshot of him conjures not a face but a ribbon of pipe smoke emanating from behind an open volume, an omnipresent red pen poised in midair for the next margin note. 2009 December 09 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
Notwithstanding the occasional outburst behind closed doors, to the outside world William still appeared to be a remarkably poised, outgoing, and even-tempered young gentleman. William and Kate
As readers may know, Kinsey counterpoised heterosexuality and homosexuality on a single bipolar continuum, which ranged from exclusive heterosexuality to exclusive homosexuality.
The game is poised on a knife-edge. One mistake or one piece of good luck could decide it.
The coarse texture of the concrete is counterpoised to the silky surface of aluminium kitchen fittings and gleaming expanse of woodblock floor.
As the team stood near the ramp hinge, poised to exit the helicopter, the Sergeant saw a man duck behind a berm at the nine o'clock position.
That leaves Bush, in Texas, poised to reach national prominence as a Republican advocating a cooler approach to the issue.
His opponent had a haunted look when poised to receive. Times, Sunday Times
California sea lions porpoised through the waves to circle our boats.
The Head RN merely arched a well-plucked eyebrow, and Cassie stood in the doorway as poised and silent as a statue.
He said the group was poised to hold talks with the new franchise holders in the coming weeks.
But here too, counterpoised to one tendency in his psychology, there is another.
And what are we -- ripples on the tides of a birthless, deathless, equipoised Creative-Purpose -- but little works of Art? Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
The game is poised on a knife-edge. One mistake or one piece of good luck could decide it.
The immateriality of the inserted structures is induced by height and length, and by being counterpoised against the massive masonry wall, its thickness displayed in the deep reveals of small square windows set high above the ground.
Instead of his head falling away and legs imitating those of a drunk, he was poised and resolute, pulverising anything that came within his shot-radar.
The dancer was poised on one foot.
With the presidential election poised on a knife-edge, both camps have turned their attention not only to the key mid-western battlegrounds but also to the south-western states of the US.
Members of the pit deputies union were poised to stage the first of eight one-day strikes next Tuesday in a dispute over pay and conditions.
In the picture, she looks entirely poised and comfortable.
The U.S. economy seems poised to rebound one moment, then sputters the next.
Scientists said this week they had drilled into the lower section of Earth's crust for the first time and were poised to break through to the mantle in coming years.
Then potential menace turned to pure joy as two more orcas joined the first and together they porpoised toward the setting sun.
Those that have already signed are defenders Mark Hotte, Steve Baker and Paul Shepherd, with Shaun Rennison poised to join them.
The girl seems delicately poised between past and present, youth and eternity, bedlam and meditation.
The worm is now poised to emerge from its dormant phase and begin to spread rapidly by colonising more machines and sites.
Their paws are poised, ready to pounce on ideas and nuggets of information.
With both sexes poised to breed, it stands to reason a mechanism must be in place if the doe is to enter estrus and be bred under the darker phases of the moon, which is the third quarter to first quarter. The Rut
Ceding Arsenal plenty of possession and playing on the break a tiring Sunderland looked poised for a point. Sunderland fans salute Arsenal's storybook goalscorer Thierry Henry
The chinchilla stared back at the heron, blankly, its two front legs held delicately poised in the air. BEHINDLINGS
Obama at least seems poised to make some changes in the American equability equation. Big-Bucks Donors Also Key To Obama's Fundraising Success
The Indian economy is so finely poised on the edge of a boom that it will take very little to start the upward climb again.
When he pulled up too hard on landing and porpoised into a stall the resulting crash hurt like a sock in the mouth.
It was poised there, a rosy ball, and then it began to dip below the rim of the land.
Since the extra nuclei don't die, they could be poised to make muscle proteins again, providing a type of muscle memory, he says.
Through the arch of the cave, as far as the eye can see, misted peaks sit, poised like advancing waves.
The truth-telling capacities of the (literal and figurative) glass are counterpoised with the false images reflected back on the Earl by those who assess his body as a part of a wider social organism.
Her aura of poised confidence was gone, leaving behind a tired air.
The sight that had arrested their attention was hundreds of the smaller squacco herons, standing-long necks curved into an S and long beaks poised to stab at fish-on nearly every single one of the sturdy lily pads that surrounded each fragrant blooming white flower. The Plains of Passage
Rob was still poised uncertainly on the doorstep, held at bay either by Kim's urgent stare or Bill's bullhorn.
Anti-Enlightenment philosophy had a great influence on 19th-century Romanticism, which repudiated reason in favour of nature worship, and counterpoised the genius of the artist to mass mediocrity.
With the game delicately poised, it was anybody's in the second half.
It is a splendid novel composed with a poised restraint and admirably captures the contrast between Henry James's vibrant fiction and the elusive, undramatic quality of his own life.
As we speak, one giant telecommunications company, the cable/programming megalith Comcast, is poised to take over another, the NBC network of local stations, cable channels and even a movie studio. Art Brodsky: The Master Switch by Tim Wu -- a Masterful Guide to Our Internet World
She was poised and full of grace, and he was rooting for her.
Britain was poised to fly medical staff to the country at short notice.
They wore sleek hairstyles, or things called beehives; they were poised, ageless and grown-up, and they had nothing, nothing to do with me or the likes of me.
The whirring rattle of a diamondback poised to strike Maj.
Crime scene investigators are also poised to attend garage and shed break-ins to gather finger and palm prints as part of the same operation.
His eyes locked on solider above his bed and the blade poised above his heart.
He is commonly remembered not as the mature creator -- forging, in mingled arrogance and piety, "the uncreated conscience of his race" -- but as a winged figure poised for a break with the dominating forces in his background. James Joyce
But be aware that insurers will not pay out if you knew when you took out the policy that your employer was poised to make redundancies. Times, Sunday Times
He also thinks that ITV is poised for a recovery.
It stands 36 metres wide by nine metres high and is intertwined with the fossils, skeletons and carcasses of creatures that once inhabited the oceans, all seemingly poised to wrench themselves free from the stone that entombs them.
The eldest, Gloria, is a poised beauty, while Dolly and Phil are pertly precocious.
His knife was gleaming just above her heart, his hands poised to make the fatal move.
But others perceived him as an intelligent, poised and polite diplomat.
A chunk of rubble half as high as a man was poised on the edge above the telephone box.
Eustace pulled up short in breathless dismay, for a few paces away there arose from among these untidy "humpies" some twenty natives -- erect, alert, all with poised boomerangs or spears ready to fling. Queensland Cousins
The infighting has been an unwelcome distraction for a candidate who was poised to sail into the governor's mansion after winning a commanding 49% of the vote in a four-way primary. South Carolina's Haley Faces Fire From Party Members
She uses fat marching sticks, her hands arthritic, weightless flam paradiddle-diddles tossed off left and right, her accelerando poised and controlled. Moe Tucker
The girl poised the glass on the edge of the table.
The economy is poised for take - off.
The other men had come and hastily put a roof on, but the cabin as a whole reminded Roger of nothing so much as a pile of giant jackstraws, poised precariously on the side of the mountain and obviously only awaiting the next spring flood to slide down the mountain after its builder. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Perkins asked, crossing his legs at the knee, his expression anticipatory, respectful, his pen poised over his clipboard. The Glass Rainbow
And, with the world championship three months and a major block of training away, she is already well poised to retain her two rainbow jerseys. Times, Sunday Times
The rebels are poised for a new assault on the government garrisons.
One dragged a huge chain wherever he went, another an ouranoutang, whilst a third was furnished with scourges, and all performed to a charm; some clambered up trees, holding one foot in the air; others poised themselves over a fire, and without mercy filliped their noses. The History of the Caliph Vathek
Faith healer Kathryn Kuhlman, based on a Missouri-born evangelist from the 1960s - re-appropriated/inhabited by Justin Bond - sits perfectly poised upstage on her throne flanked by iridescent white lions. Roya Rastegar: Justin Bond and the House of Whimsy: Re:Galli Blonde (A Sissy Fix)
One thus finds in Stubbs's portrait of the Pocklington family that the foundational relationship of husband and wife is triangulated and emblematized by the horse, to whom Mrs. Pocklington gives her hand and affections, and beside which the captain stands, legs mimetically poised like the animal's own. 'Sweet Influences': Human/Animal Difference and Social Cohesion in Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1794-1806
‘It's kryptonite for both sides,’ one travelling official said, and in a exquisitely poised contest like this, neither wants to risk disaster.
If so, is the maladjusted economy poised for a spurt of activity with the positive resolution of today's acute geopolitical concerns?
He studied the keyboard carefully(Sentence dictionary), one finger poised.
Magellan had shown that the world was round and poised in space, instead of flat and surrounded by a circumfluent ocean. The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization
It depicts a prostitute in lower Manhattan in front of a stoop with a black cat poised on the railing - a visual pun on cathouse.
a gull in poised flight
At the beginning of the year 2000 UK oil giants seemed poised to scrap the boats and replace them with helicopters.
Although this was a landscape of vast kinetic energy through the movement of water, there were also some wonderful moments of stillness: the huge veteran oaks at Atcham poised darkly in an oxbow lake, their massive root buttresses under water; the flock of mute swans, with one black swan in their midst, grazing the glimmering edges of flooded fields at Cound. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
The bee hung poised above the flower.
The browns and tans and whites of poised game can blend with the background foliage.
But Perfect View, poised on a ledge above Snow Hill and beneath Richmond Heights, gazing serenely across to Bathampton and what – in my young day as a cub reporter on the Bath Chronicle – we called the Admiralty hutments: Perfect View is the real thing. Britain's best views: Bath
One boat had over a hundred stone and the fishermen are now poised for a break in the weather to make some decent landings and earn some much needed cash after a very lean period.
But now the internet is poised to make a remote Highlands village one of the world's most viewed scenes. The Sun
No figure of bronze could have been more rigid than that of the old river-king as he stood erect upon the rock with the left foot advanced and the harpoon poised in his ready right hand above his head, while in the left he held the loose coils of rope attached to the ambatch buoy. In the Heart of Africa
Drivers are now poised to join the action, which critics have claimed is designed to damage the privatised rail system. Times, Sunday Times
SO management is poised to make some radical changes that will affect you seriously. Times, Sunday Times
They are poised to raise margins with no help from rising house prices or higher volumes. Times, Sunday Times
They are held together, poised upright like a pencil standing on its point, by the recursive dynamics of coevolution.
You are almost poised for biblical references. Times, Sunday Times
The differences are minute and the mien is the same: bold, poised and sexy. Fashion World of SL

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