Sentence examples for poised over from inspiring English sources

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, looks meaningfully into the camera as he holds a piece of paper poised over a plastic ballot box.

Stuart looks dejected, his fingers still poised over the buttons.

I held the bag poised over the spoon.

This one, poised over the Nabokov story, is perhaps more explicit.

Netanyahu's regulatory sword is similarly poised over Channel Two, Israel's dominant commercial television channel.

The city is dotted with motionless construction cranes poised over the pits of abandoned projects.

First things first, says the doctor, his pen poised over a notepad.

The country is poised over the PM's reaction to the NHS reforms.

It's very ominous, all of these knives poised over his head.

A comedy heavyweight, poised over his keyboard, ready to share the lolz with the entire Twittersphere.

The evil lift poised over the shark tank a distant second.