perch

Example Sentences

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Still, the institution endured, its grassy campus and low-slung wings perched proudly on the east end of town.

From Los Angeles Times

Meanwhile, the audience has perched between seasons, with little indication of whether the show will sufficiently account for its young stars’ off-camera maturation within the story once it returns.

From Salon

Over time, however, many of the stranger pairs began sharing space more comfortably and eventually perched together, touched beaks or groomed each other.

From Science Daily

The Ivies were soon knocked off their perch.

From The Wall Street Journal

For two weeks, a strange bird has perched in Brooklyn over the treetops of one of the Three Sisters Islands in Prospect Park Lake.

From New York Times