Synonym: assured, balanced, collected, composed, confident. Similar words: poise, porpoise, poison, poisoning, poisonous, noise, food poisoning, tortoise. Meaning: ['pɔɪzd] adj. 1. marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action 2. in full control of your faculties.
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61) We are poised on the edge.
62) The Cowboys will be primed and poised.
63) So fingers poised: The number to dial is 708-0338.
64) Racing: Little Polvier poised for his third National victory.
65) Heather looked poised and relaxed as she made her way to the stage.
66) Two steely-eyed men face each other on a dusty street, their hands poised above holstered six-shooters.
67) The rescue machine was poised for action, and the rest is now history. 1984.
68) He holds his violin low down, the bow fastidiously poised above it.
68) Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
69) Now lecturers at the university are poised to take strike action over the affair.
70) Like families gathered at Christmas, social animals are poised between cooperation and conflict.
71) Who knows, the evergreen Martina Navratilova may now be poised to add to her staggering total of more than 160 major titles.
72) They are too anxious about being something else than simply men, not firmly enough poised.
73) Bird was poised on the court and he appeared relaxed as he went through the filming.
74) Beyond the window, a screen whose net curtains looked poised to fall, Karen heard voices.
75) The man remained poised between the two like a bridge, without moving in one direction or the other.
76) He only gobs miniscule amounts at any time ... and has a constant supply waiting, poised on his tongue.
77) But now California is poised for its first execution in 23 years.
78) Ahead of it the Wyrmberg turned from a distant toy to several billion tons of rock poised between heaven and earth.
79) A tabby cat was poised to pounce at any second.
80) It was poised there, a rosy ball,[sentencedict.com] and then it began to dip below the rim of the land.
81) Such is the skill of the rhythmic pacing however, that the final chord seemed poised to continue.
82) The Test has been delicately poised for four days, with fortunes swinging wildly.
83) Now, the company is poised to deliver on the promise it has used to leverage its future during research and development.
84) Calvary's pipe organs are poised to sound somber notes of mourning for Earnhardt.
85) But clubs that are poised to succeed will find a niche, experts say.
86) He watched in horrified fascination as the lieutenant took out a single match and poised it over the striking strip.
87) He made periodic dives at the bowl of cherries poised on a coffee table by the sofa.
88) Now, the Seahawks appear poised to leave their solid fan base in Seattle for Southern California.
89) Everything carries a strangeness as enigmatic as the vision of Constantina, poised with her knife above the chocolate-roll.
90) Now, at 18, Crowell is a teen-ager poised on the brink of adult-sized fame.
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