pensile

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Tickell describes the nest as pensile but quite open, being a hemisphere with one side prolonged, by which it is suspended from a twig.

From The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Hume, Allan Octavian

These are in great part perpendicular, and are over clambered with airy stairways climbing to pensile arbors.

From Italian Journeys by Howells, William Dean

There was also a weeping willow close by, whose pensile tresses of new verdure touched the half-broken walls of earth underneath.

From Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan by Wilson, Epiphanius

Who, o'er her palaces and buried towers, Shall bid the owl hoot, and the bittern scream; And on her pensile groves and pleasant shades 80 Pour the deep waters of forgetfulness.

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by Gilfillan, George

The oriole uses them the most successfully, often attaching her pensile nest to the branch by their aid.

From Ways of Nature by Burroughs, John