poised

IPA: pˈɔɪzd

Examples of "poised" in Sentences

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Size doesn't matter: these tiny fruit flies are once again poised to take on the world.
The barbarian watched the grisly scene play out as he stood breathing heavily with the great sword poised to strike yet again if need be.
Though The Matarese Circle is poised from the get-go to reach a different box office level than Cronenberg’s previous works, it continues the director’s path away from hardcore genre classics like Videodrome, Scanners, Crash and The Fly.
Needless to state, the firelocks were all "poised" -- whatever that may be -- and, led by Allen, a rush was made, the sentry overpowered, and soon the gallant "83" were standing back to back on the parade-ground within the fort, their muskets levelled at the two barracks which, filled with sleeping soldiers, faced each other.
And if the cover art foreshadows the style of this gargantuan cotton-candy novel, the title poised between horse and skyline suggests the allusive, striving nature of the themes to come: Shakespeare's romance of resurrection will be only the most conspicuous swatch in a patchwork of Renaissance fairy tale, Victorian saga, Vonnegutian fable, and dreamy surrealism in the Latin American manner.