atop
Example Sentences
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The song “Southern Nights” is best known as a foot-stomping hit that landed Glen Campbell atop the pop chart in 1977.
Covered in fractal patterns like “the symmetrical innards of a halved cabbage,” the giant humanoid insect reclines, “a god-sized man sleeping atop the quilt of the land.”
Or is it a sleek, modern home perched atop a mountain where the nearest grocery store is miles and miles away?
She spoke to the griffin, her face buried in the feathers atop his head.
From Literature
Her ashen hair sits in a quivering pile atop her head and her spectacles, if not teetering on the end of her sniffer, hang from a sterling chain to rest upon her ample bosom.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
