Example sentences for: atop

How can you use “atop” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The story also sits atop the Wall Street Journal 's front-page news index box and is fronted below the fold by the Washington Post , whose top non-local story is the paper's new polling on the New Hampshire primaries showing that both the Democratic and Republican races are "up for grabs."

  • Above the beaches, with fine views of the city and the sea, are a number of parks atop steep green hills.

  • The hyphens that separate -athon from the base morpheme is most new usages surely are self-conscious attempts to call attention to the wit invested in the coinage, like parsley atop a casserole of leftovers.

  • Atop this cobra is a bronze bird like those found on the corners of temple roofs.

  • One of the most spectacularly situated towns in Europe, Ronda sits atop a cliff-bound plateau, cleaved through the middle by a sheer-sided gorge.


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