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Sentence Examples He begins his analysis by simplifying and generalizing the problem, dispensing with the surveyor's vocabulary of perches and chains and bearings. A rain shelter was provided on the end opposite to the observation blind and numerous perches were scattered throughout. It perches its tender comedy on a choice between the maturity that masks a meek acceptance of death, and a spirit that refuses to yield. It taps, enters, and perches doomily, prophetically, on the bust of Pallas, goddess of wisdom. He wisely perches his sleeping bag on top of a dune to avoid their onslaught. Others relish their greens when hung creatively over branches and perches so they may work at nibbling the tasty offering. Beneath him, miraculously confounded with the seat, flies a speeding horse on which the man perches side-saddle. The marsh hawk perches in a bare cottonwood tree, scowling at a flock of bufflehead ducks bobbing on the marsh. Made from bright orange, green or pink wool-covered foam, the seat perches upon thin steel legs. They usually breed in marshes and brushy swamps with some open water, dense, low vegetation, and perches for singing. They watch for prey from slightly elevated perches such as hummocks, rocks, and fence posts. There were thousands of them leaving their daylight perches and flying away to forage on neighbouring islands. The frame-houses, on the other hand, seem to have alighted like passing birds on unlikely perches. Her dark laughter sent shivers down my spine, and the birds flew away from their perches, rightfully frightened by her voice. Dead branches also make perfect perches for resting birds and are good places to hang feeders. Birds sang their morning songs from the high perches in the old trees that lumbered over the near distant lands. Birds sang from perches on the rooftops, and shutters were thrown open to let in the morning sun, as the city people began their day. Dressed in a stripy lime blouse and cream slacks, she reaches the sofa, kicks off her shoes and perches on it like a pixie. At the top of the tall, narrow Victorian townhouse, on a small landing beneath a skylight, perches Gunn's writing desk. The arboreal habitats of anoles are composed primarily of short perches separated in space. Show More Sentences Most of the perches were exposed horizontal stems or branches about 1 cm in diameter. It was part of an area of 15 acres, three roods and four perches originally granted to John Dickson. They are especially common around ranch buildings and corrals where perches are plentiful. The birds then obligingly dropped their feces into well-placed plastic flowerpots near popular perches throughout a large, wooded test area. Elegant frigate birds soar high overhead, sea lions bark from their crowded rock perches, and schools of angelfish swarm beneath your bow. As the tarantass nears the wattled corral, the watchful ravens stir from their perches. They looked like aviaries with their random scattering of what appeared to be perches. These perches with huge vistas were just the sort of place the Urartians favoured for their strongholds. It is described in Griffith's Valuation of 1857 as containing one acre two roods and five perches and owned by him. Each chamber contained three perches with microswitches under the crossbars that activated when the birds occupied the perches. The apparatus has two operational stimulus lights and three perches equipped with microswitches. Black vultures choose less precarious rocky perches on which to nest but join the lammergeiers on the thermals in their quest for food. Mum perches on the edge of Thomas's bed and laughs at the outrageous situation we've found ourselves in. Mac lifted the rest of the chunks of eel meat from their perches over the dying embers. An osprey flying past with a fish in its talons was another bonus while a dusky flycatcher hawked insects from various perches around the garden. Clouds of metallic blue butterflies dispersed off their gold and waxen perches and rippled over his head. Chemrey Monastery, in Ladakh, perches at 3000m on a rocky mound among the arid mountain tops of the Himalayas. A trial typically started once the experimenter left the aviary and the birds flew down from their perches onto the grid. In 1914, 1 acre was taken for a pumice quarry, and subsequently 3 roods, or 27.8 perches, were returned to the descendants of those owners. Finally, Ms Earle says human rights lawyers must come down from their lofty perches. Show More Sentences High street contains about seventy houses, is 90 feet in width, and 180 perches in length. Once Keaton laughed so hard he scared all the birds within a ten-foot radius out of their perches. He was prepared to provide T-bar perches for installation in areas where he regularly flew the birds. It usually perches in a diagonal rather than upright position. Amethyst-throated Hummingbird males vocalized mainly from exposed perches as they turned their heads, displaying their brilliant amethyst gorgets. How could anyone remain impervious to the Chapelle de la Madone, that perches above the village and seems to watch over our vineyards immutably? I watch her as she pulls one of the mold-spattered kitchen chairs across the room and perches girlishly on the edge of it, her bare feet splayed over the rungs. The Gothic towers are crowned by golden crosses, and a goldfinch in the marginalia perches upon the cross on the entrance tower. At that point, they would give up their now useless perches, the watercourse flowing North. The insects are caught on the wing from lookout perches or in and around the flowers. The front perches are superbly supportive. I did notice that legroom for tall drivers is on the skimpy side. At one point Abramovic perches on a makeshift bed, with coffins lined up at the side, while Hegarty sings with his back to the audience. The house perches right on the chalk-white dunes and has a relaxed, painted-wood interior finished in contemporary, sun-bleached tones. He perches his ample behind atop his throne, and his red trousers are rent asunder with a sharp rip. From 3-4 weeks they should learn to use perches at night and when they want to rest. For example, alongside the bird jokes, the reader learns why birds don't fall off their perches while sleeping. The crowning element is a gold-tipped weathervane that perches atop the lantern. At other times, the male perches on the rim of the nest, takes his mate's bill in his, and feeds her as if she were a nestling. Is it true that there is a species of bird that nests or perches on the backs of whales? Perch heights should be adjusted in response to the birds' behaviour by seeing how easily birds can get on and off perches and move between them. Show More Sentences These mites originate from other pet birds, and are easily eradicated by washing or changing perches, feeder cups and toys frequently, and keeping the cage clean and washed. Keep in mind that having a selection of wooden toys and proper perches can help to keep your bird's beak trimmed naturally, thus eliminating the need for you to have it done. Birds were tested on perches appropriate for their foot size. Naturalists say that mere presence of perches will not attract birds. A realistically painted bird perches on a feeder against a chalky wall. Only five minutes from the rivers of tourist tack around the station, but miles away in spirit, this tiny store perches on a corner near the top of the Canale di Cannaregio. The Belarusian will surely win another slam this season, with her prospects of knocking Williams off one of her perches at Wimbledon and Flushing Meadows looking good. Each individual, in its own compartment of a large vivarium behaves like a dominant, selecting high perches and courting when a female is introduced. Trials ended after 3 min of foraging or 1 min after all the birds flew back to their perches, after which the remaining seeds and husks were removed. Red-tailed Hawks are found in almost every type of habitat, as long as there are open areas interspersed with patches of trees or other elevated perches. Most of the nests are constructed on precarious perches nestled in the virtually vertical cliffs of the basalt and conglomerate. An individual perches on a branch and stays perfectly still, with only its eyes moving. In the breeding season, Snowy Owls are typically found from the treeline to the northern limit of Canada, preferring high, rolling tundra with tall points of land for nest sites and perches. They constantly scan the area around their perches, ready to chase another owl from the territory or to launch a silent attack on a mouse or other prey. Except during the nesting season, the Osprey perches near its fishing area to eat its catch, which it holds down with one foot and tears to pieces with its beak, devouring the head first. Since the perches can go through a cagewash with the cages, less labor is involved than with tree branches or PVC perches. American toads still fill spring nights with prolonged chirrings, while tree-frogs trill from perches in trees and shrubs. The ring-tailed lemur, with its distinctive black-and-white striped tail, perches in the crook of a tree, snacking on a leaf. In spring, the brilliant Little Green Bee-eater graces the skies and perches on phone and electricity wires. Leg and headroom in all five seating positions is more than adequate but the same doesn't hold true for the seat cushion length in the front perches. Show More Sentences As all pigeons tipplers need a loft with some basic constraints: it should be dry, dust free and wind free, but with a good ventilation, and of course enough perches and nesting places. To make this possible, perches and climbing structures should be provided. He parlayed the connections he made in that powerful shop, which advises firms on big decisions like restructuring and buying other firms, into a number of plum perches afterwards. Every day between 7am and 9am, then again from 4pm to 7pm, a man in a peaked cap perches on a small chair by the dual carriageway, beams at the oncoming traffic and gives drivers the thumbs-up sign. Apparently this mechanism is so effective that dead birds have been found gr a sping their perches long after they have died. Earlier this month, a rumour of imminent attack was enough to clear the square and set Cerrik's defenders loosing off their guns from perches on rooftops and behind walls. After all, the critic, and especially the critic who perches in high journalistic places, needs to have a space in which he can insert himself and do the explicatory work he offers to a world presumed to be in need of it. Turkeys should be provided with perches placed at a height where birds on the ground are not able easily to peck and tug at the feathers of perching birds. There is no sense that you're being asked to cool your heels when one of them suggests that you wait a moment in the harlequin-colored bar area, with its Starckian velvet perches and beautifully presented cocktails. I know artists who've been seriously knocked off their perches through disappointment. A basilisk perches atop the richly-decorated fountain column, grasping in its talons the Basel Stadt coat of arms, a black crosier on a white background. They detect their prey using visual cues, dash from their perches to where the prey item is, and capture it with their tongue in a process known as lingual prehension. The falcon, although unhooded, perches, docile and still on the edge of a table. More than 25 members of Troop 622 volunteered Saturday to help him set up the boxes and perches at the landfill, 2801 Madera Road, just north of the Simi Valley Freeway. If another kingfisher enters its territory, both birds display from perches, and fights may occur, in which a bird will grab the other's beak and try to hold it under water. A kingbird perches on the corner of a milk crate jutting out of the mud. Examples from Classical Literature The arrangement of perches and nesting-places may be left to the reader's judgment. A lapdog slept on her knee, a parrot and a monkey were on perches by her side, the litter was followed by servants and by guards. She goes and perches on the table near Mary, who is staring sadly in front of her. It has only just occurred to me that they ought to have had perches to roost on. A grey heron perches on the lower boughs of the trees, and fishes in the ponds. Then we'll know he's a carp-fish, 'cause the perches and trouts haven't got feelers. This is the bird which perches on the roof of the house at night and calls to-whoo. Under daylight atomics the transport engineers in their glass perches read the dials and turned the switches. She reached one and then another of the perches which mark the channel into the harbour. No longer did the squirrel run up spruce trees, leap from branch to branch, or cling chattering to giddy perches. As he perches high above the salt marshes scanning the horizon, bird watchers, locals and tourists inspired by Monty's story keep watch, too. The sound of monotonous axe blows rang through the forest, and the insects, nodding upon their perches, crooned like old women. They beat their great wings up and down, and smote their rocky perches with their mighty tails until the ground shook. Flycatchers use perches with an unobstructed view for sit-and-scan foraging. About fifty perches, your honor, in the same boreen, but higher up. He perches there each evening on the extreme end of the longest bough. He perches on the cardinal's hat and counsels bigotry and oppression. Screaming with terror the Maoris were dragged from their lofty perches. All but one of the NADA galleries will relocate from their upper floor perches between West 24th Street and West 27th Street in Chelsea to their new ground floor showrooms. Find more words! 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