PERCH in a Sentence
Learn PERCH from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
66 example sentences for PERCH, such as:
1. She was perched on the edge of the sofa.
2. Her sunglasses were perched on her head.
3. We perched on bar stools and had a beer.
4. The black crow perched on the telephone pole.
5. I like a man to be natural, not always on a perch.
2. Her sunglasses were perched on her head.
3. We perched on bar stools and had a beer.
4. The black crow perched on the telephone pole.
5. I like a man to be natural, not always on a perch.
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Meanings and Examples of PERCH
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perch
n. support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird)
n. an elevated place serving as a seat
Classic Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1 All the animals were now present except Moses, the tame raven, who slept on a perch behind the back door.
2 Moses sprang off his perch and flapped after her, croaking loudly.
3 She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance.
4 He would perch on a stump, flap his black wings, and talk by the hour to anyone who would listen.
5 I like a man to be natural, not always on a perch.
6 Descending from her perch she again sauntered off towards Rainbarrow, though this time she did not go the whole way.
7 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.
8 After a while, however, he wearied of his perch and, dropping alone to the pavement, pushed his way to the first corner and turned into the moonlit silence of a side street.
9 They had dropped a decaying perch into his pocket.
10 Then arranging his person in the basket, he gave the word for them to hoist him to his perch, Starbuck being the one who secured the rope at last; and afterwards stood near it.
11 Unmindful of the tedious rope-ladders of the shrouds, the men, like shooting stars, slid to the deck, by the isolated backstays and halyards; while Ahab, less dartingly, but still rapidly was dropped from his perch.
12 They seemed content to perch tranquilly on the river bank, and leave him bowed down by the weight of a great problem.
13 I spects I 's the wickedest critter in the world; and Topsy would cut a summerset, and come up brisk and shining on to a higher perch, and evidently plume herself on the distinction.'
14 And close by them lay a lamb upon the floor, and behind them upon a perch sat a white dove with its head hidden beneath its wings.
15 Dantes from his rocky perch saw the shattered vessel, and among the fragments the floating forms of the hapless sailors.
Example Sentence:
1 Repeated attempts to rescue him failed because of snow storms and avalanches but on Wednesday two Pakistani military helicopters managed to fly close enough to his perch for one of them to dangle a line to him.
2 We perched on bar stools and had a beer.
3 The black crow perched on the telephone pole.
4 He lit a cigarette and perched on the corner of the desk.
5 Erosion has left the house perched on the very edge of the cliff.
6 The town is perched on the edge of a steep, precipitous cliff.
7 She was perched on the edge of the sofa.
8 The builders have perched a light concrete dome on eight slender columns.
9 Her sunglasses were perched on her head.
10 I perched on the edge of his desk to listen to him.