Sentence examples for their poised from inspiring English sources

In White III, the stage clears and brightens as the whole company takes to the stage in a breathtaking display of their poised, cartwheeling, cat-leaping technique, while Atsuhiko Gondai's score – lush orchestral textures skewered by insistently repeated tones – builds up tension but never lets it break out.

This is accomplished through methylation of bivalent chromatin domains and their poised transcriptional states [ 71], by removal of H3K27me3 marks, thus enabling expression of key developmental genes such as WNT3, DKK1 or FOXH1 involved in Wnt and Nodal pathways [ 196 , 197]

Reporters crowd around, their fingers poised over their phones, angling to be the first to tweet the news.

It's time physicians learned that nurses are on their team, poised to manage complex critical decisions and care for their patients.

Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists also had their straws poised.

Soldiers stood behind sandbag walls, their guns poised.

Multiple Herculeses go about their business, poised to pulverize the giants and centaurs.

Eastern time, furniture fans are stationed at their computers, poised to point and click.

Along the road we saw dozens of men, some on bicycles, their sticks poised as if for a joust.

With their hands poised over the instrument, they shot each other a look and then started plunking on the keys.

Everyone in the city has their hand poised just above it ready to communicate all sorts of emotions.