Sentence examples for postured from inspiring English sources
The word 'postured' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it as a verb to mean 'to adopt an attitude or take a position'. For example: After weeks of negotiation, the two parties postured for a compromise solution.
He has postured and posed, but apart from one shouting-match with the judge on February 11th he has also plainly compromised.
Then a group of Republicans in the Senate postured at preventing Democrats from removing the key passage on health care by blocking a motion to bring the bill that Republicans supported to a vote.
You took the easy, safe way out and postured and displayed your fine moral credentials at next to no cost or risk to yourself.James AllanGarrick Professor of LawUniversity of QueenslandBrisbane, AustraliaSIR – The freedom to "blaspheme" should be left to stand-up comedians and the like.
It has postured and provoked, making references to Germany's Nazi past, and jeopardised potential allies in its battle against austerity.
It also showed up a host of Arab states, some of whom have long postured as champions of the Palestinian cause but have done little to improve their plight.
The report concludes: "The games' findings are unambiguous: As currently postured, Nato cannot successfully defend the territory of its most exposed members".
Mr King said Abu Ghaith was involved in the planning in those attacks, and Tom Lynch, a research fellow at Washington's National Defence University, described Abu Ghaith as one of a small handful of senior al-Qa'ida leaders "capable of getting the old band back together and postured for a round of real serious international terror".
Heads bent, avoiding eye contact, and sullenly postured like the punctuation at the end of a question for which there is no answer — What the fuck?
"The war in Iraq was postured as a big idea.
We could have postured, and lost the Cold War peace.
Standing before a backdrop of tall trophies, the musclemen re-postured every few seconds, pulling down, for example, from the tall double-bicep pose into the squat "lat spread" position.
