perched
Example Sentences
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Back in Chicago, I lived in a sprawling three-story Colonial perched perfectly in a cul-de-sac.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Parkinson photographed a black vulture perched over a dead yacaré caiman in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands, keeping his boat at a distance and using a long telephoto lens to capture the shot.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
One person sits in concentrated silence at each window, another perched in the back of the pick-up truck, ducking for the occasional limb branching from trees which rise around us.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
During a stop at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, an owl perched on her gloved arm made her squeal like the girl she had been during her first visit there on a grade-school field trip.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
I was perched on the foot of my bed, waiting while my system powered up.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
