perched
Example Sentences
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The image shows most of the houses perched on this slope are now gone or covered in mud.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
A few days later, they were both in the aerie, perched high in a Jeffrey pine overlooking the picturesque lake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
A tavern’s open door to my right revealed a line of patrons perched atop barstools, their backs to the open door, watching a TV showing the eclipse nearing totality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
By summer 1895, students were lobbing small balls into waste paper baskets perched upon poles on the lawn of a new Dartford talent factory: Madame Bergman Osterberg's Physical Training College.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
There were shrubs clinging to the surface, and birds perched on occasional outcrops—crows, a nest of sand martins, and a flock of four silver-gray hawklike birds Christopher had never seen before.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
