POISE in a Sentence
Learn POISE 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.
54 example sentences for POISE, such as:
1. She stood poised for a moment.
2. His performance was full of maturity and poise.
3. It took a moment for Mark to recover his poise.
4. The girl poised the glass on the edge of the table.
5. She was poised to challenge for the party leadership.
2. His performance was full of maturity and poise.
3. It took a moment for Mark to recover his poise.
4. The girl poised the glass on the edge of the table.
5. She was poised to challenge for the party leadership.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of POISE
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poise
n. a cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter; the viscosity of a fluid in which a force of one dyne per square centimeter maintains a velocity of 1 centimeter per second
v. hold or carry in equilibrium
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1 Honey's nervously obvious desire to be attractive to every man in sight contrasted sharply with her father's poise, and Scarlett had the thought that perhaps there was something in what Mrs. Tarleton said, after all.
2 Still the words would not come, but, a measure of poise returning, she kept her eyes demurely down and tucked the corners of her mouth into a little smile.
3 He became a glorified floor-walker, greeting the men with new poise, no longer coyly subservient to pretty women.
4 The thing she gained in Washington was not information about office-systems and labor unions but renewed courage, that amiable contempt called poise.
5 But with more feeling and discernment he would have recognized the noble beauty of its modeling, and the graceful severity of poise and movement, which made Edna Pontellier different from the crowd.
6 No, it was not their colours: it was the poise and balance of the period itself.
7 The poise of the head strikes one at once as indicative of thought and power; the head is noble, well-sized, broad, and large behind the ears.
8 He gave the cane another poise, and another switch; and having finished his preparation of it, laid it down beside him, with an impressive look, and took up his book.
9 There was no mistaking the poise of the head, the squareness of the shoulders, the sharpness of the features.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
Context Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
10 Silently they manoeuvred in their water world, poised in the blue patch made by the sky, or shot silently to the edge where the grass, trembling, made a fringe of nodding shadow.
11 At that the fleet of boat-shaped bodies paused; poised; equipped; mailed; then with a waver of undulation off they flashed.
12 Only the ineffective word "hedgehog" illustrated his vision of Europe, bristling with guns, poised with planes.
13 The day had greyed over; the small blue sky that had poised low on its circular rims of haze was closed in again, the lid was down, there was a raw coldness.
14 He fastened fluffy young oak-sprays round her breasts, sticking in tufts of bluebells and campion: and in her navel he poised a pink campion flower, and in her maiden-hair were forget-me-nots and woodruff.
15 On the summit, hard and clear like an equestrian statue upon its pedestal, was a mounted soldier, dark and stern, his rifle poised ready over his forearm.
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1 Let you taste my poise, you leave me want to celebrate.
2 His performance was full of maturity and poise.
3 She never lost her social poise, however awkward the situation.
4 It took a moment for Mark to recover his poise.
5 When I saw him lift and poise the book and stand in act to hurl it, I instinctively started aside with a cry of alarm.
6 I did so, not at first aware what was his intention; but when I saw him lift and poise the book and stand in act to hurl it, I instinctively started aside with a cry of alarm.
7 She waited by the door like a small animal poised for flight.
8 She was poised to challenge for the party leadership.
9 The economy is poised for take - off.
10 The girl poised the glass on the edge of the table.
11 The rebels are poised for a new assault on the government garrisons.
12 Our region is poised for growth once the election is out of the way.
13 She stood poised for a moment.
14 The game is poised on a knife-edge.
15 The eagle poised in mid-air ready to swoop on its prey.