Sentence examples for poised to kill from inspiring English sources

I stand over him, knife poised to kill.

Prince Siegfried is poised to kill the swan, but then witnesses its transformation into a beautiful young woman.

As Euron seems poised to kill Yara in front of Theon, Theon, rather than doing anything swashbuckling, trembles, looks pained, and jumps overboard.

In traditional presentations of Act IV, Scene 1 of "Merchant" Portia, disguised as a male lawyer to rescue a man under threat of death, emerges as an avenging angel; Shylock, viciously poised to kill an enemy in an act of legal redress, is usually the vanquished villain or, in more fashionable contemporary readings, the Jewish victim of a Christian social order reasserting itself.

And now, it's poised to kill Google Voice, too.

We're not saying that Spotify is poised to kill off iTunes – far from it.

He was criticized by Giants Coach Tom Coughlin and many others last Sunday for ignoring an unwritten rule about not attacking an offense when the quarterback is poised to kneel to kill off the final seconds of a game.

Key effector cells are the antitumor cytolytic T lymphocytes (CTL), which are poised to recognize and kill tumor cells.

A gay man who shrugged off three mafia plots to kill him is poised to become Sicily's first homosexual governor in elections that show the centre left advancing at the expense of Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing party.

More than 30 Israelis and two American visitors have been killed since the attacks began last fall, while more than 200 Palestinians have been killed by Israelis, many while attacking or poised to attack, according to the Israeli authorities.

Poised to give the downbeat for a loud string entrance, he added, "Kill 'em," and then, "Big splash!" A stuttering woodwind passage should laugh.