Sentence examples for had poised from inspiring English sources

I had poised with a syringe full of coke stuck in my arm for long, heart-thudding moments, conscious that if I depressed the plunger I'd have a heart attack or a stroke.

No longer content to dwell in lo-fi, Slim Devices had poised itself to enter the more aggressive arena of hi-fi.

The world's most successful teams have poised and strong back lines, capable of generating offense with quick, penetrating passes while winning tough challenges and securing position.

Facebook has poised itself as a mission-driven company.

It is also the least expensive and easiest to use, and has poised IPIX to become the Eastman Kodak of cyberspace.

The majority of heterocycle compounds and typically common heterocycle fragments present in most pharmaceuticals currently marketed, alongside with their intrinsic versatility and unique physicochemical properties, have poised them as true cornerstones of medicinal chemistry.

These technological breakthroughs have poised the community of biologists to address the above-mentioned questions.

This has regulatory importance since a subset of genes in the studied cell types only have poised, but not elongating RNAPII [ 8, 9, 22].

He had poise, a good feel for the game.

The Nets had poise but no pulse, a personality that fell somewhere between "eh" and "meh".

"I've always had poise," Jefferson said, adding for emphasis, "always".