Sentence examples for perch holding from inspiring English sources

Each seemed a child, like me, on a loose perch, Holding to childhood like some termless play.

I was dizzy, crouching down on my narrow perch, holding to a rock, and trying to multiply by eights to distract my mind.

I was sitting on the high metal bed with her, perched up, holding her hand.

With Smigel perched offstage, holding his face motionless so his lips would stay within the Gore-head graphic, O'Brien did the read-through from his desk, strumming an acoustic guitar when there was nothing else to do.

Turn the bird so it's facing the cage or perch and hold it a little below the perch.

To get a treat, a raven had to perform a complex series of actions: pull up some of the string, place a loop on the perch and hold it with a claw, then pull up another section of string and hold that loop on the perch.

While stocks rebounded this holiday-shortened week, the Nasdaq index, up 9.7percentt after being up 14.2percentt at Tuesday's close, remains far below the perch it held before last week's 25.3percentt collapse.

Appointed political editor this past May, barely six months later she was tapped to be Washington bureau chief, a perch previously held by both executive editor Jill Abramson and managing editor Dean Baquet.

While perched, it holds its head lowered and thrust forward.

He stood on his perch crowing, panting and holding his wings away from his body.

Beyond these figures, a standing twosome is holding court, perched on either side of a saucer-shaped throne from Cameroon.