Sentence examples for am poised from inspiring English sources

The beeping has been activated because the car thinks I am poised to plunge over a Spanish precipice.

I rise quickly through the Church hierarchy from altar boy (the game predates the pedophile scandal) to priest, monsignor, bishop, archbishop, and cardinal, and am poised at the door to the Sistine Chapel.

And this was a major part of the appeal back in the 1870s and 1880s, as demonstrated by a poem by an English clergyman, Henry Charles Beeching: With lifted feet, hands still, I am poised, and down the hill Dart, with heedful mind The air goes by in a wind.

But today, I can reveal to you the new app I'm working on and am poised to leave TechCrunch for: Meh.

"The financial regulatory reform legislation that I am poised to introduce this week is historic reform.

He's poised.

"He was poised.

"He's poised with experience.

Our spoons are poised.

Arenas were poised.

They were poised.