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View definitions for perches

perches

noun as in object placed high for sitting on

verb as in sit atop of

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Example Sentences

The second racoon to be caught was found by staff at the top of the zoo's parrot perches on Saturday evening.

From BBC

Others crushed beer cans and shouted slurs from their perches and hurled epithets about Democrats.

From Salon

The portion of the building that perches on the south side of Wilshire, where a surface parking lot once stood, will include a cafe that will look out on the street, as well as a 300-seat theater housed in one of seven, 30-foot-tall ground-level pavilions holding the museum’s exhibition floor aloft.

"They are so observant, always looking and watching, but staying very still on their favorite perches. I first noticed the lengths of their dive when I was trying to capture one, and it dove almost at my feet. I spent a long time just staring at it, in wonder."

From Salon

First introduced near the beginning of "House of the Dragon's" second season, Alys perches alongside Daemon throughout his sojourn in the haunted castle, beguiling, provoking and instructing the prince until the season finale, when he, following her directions, steps into the cosmic ether and briefly reunites with another strange woman.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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