Example sentences for: perched

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

  • By 1868 and the enactment of the Fourteenth Amendment, we were perched on the threshold of a constitutional revolution.

  • These days, it seems the standard procedure is to hand out the bills first, followed by the receipt, and then the coins, perched precariously on top.

  • A parrot "perched suddenly on the windowsill and shuffled himself like a pack of cards."

  • The Post and NYT both front an astounding photograph of a Taiwanese apartment building perilously perched over the street like a giant Tower of Pisa.

  • Perched on the Gargano heights south of the forest, Monte Sant’Angelo was a major medieval pilgrimage town, celebrated for its fifth-century sanctuary of St. Michael in a grotto where the archangel appeared to the Bishop of Siponto three times.


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