Sentence examples for you were poised from inspiring English sources

You peer down into a Rolleiflex, which is often more helpful than sticking a single-lens reflex in front of your face, but the machinery still blocks you off from your subjects — you still can't look at them, as you would at someone whom you wished to scare, or with whom you were poised to fall in love.

He writes of the quail "coming out while you were poised unsteadily on the icy, springy brush they made difficult shooting and I killed two, missed five, and started back pleased to have found a covey close to the house and happy there were so many left to find on another day".

"At 20 games over, you are poised to make something happen as far as the postseason.

As the greatest rhetorician in a generation, you're poised to make that case.

"Stabilizing or carving out a bottom on these trends just means you're poised for recovery.

If you're poised, ready to troll, I say only this: do you really want to prove me right?

Interpreting the news, whether you're poised behind a desk or standing on your mark, can't be performed without some degree of distortion.

Biology Virtual frogs do not slip from your hands just as you are poised to cut them open, and they are much more amenable to probing than a real frog, alive or dead.

The shots of a lonely rower sculling down the Seine, overlaid with a crackly chanson, or of the nocturnal gleam of trains in a shunting yard are so exquisite that you are poised to accuse Godard the firebrand of turning into a softie.

Second, you're poised to get involved in a workplace romance, which is always tricky, no matter the country.

"If you have a patron who can get you into the queue for jobs when you're young, ahead of other people, you are poised for greatness," says Minxin Pei of Claremont McKenna College.